iopipe v0.0.4 - RingBuffers!

[Ali Çehreli]

On 05/11/2018 06:28 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

 > 1. Ring buffers are really cool (I still love how it works) and perform
 > as well as normal buffers
 > 2. The use cases are much smaller than I thought

There is the LMAX Disruptor, which was open sourced a few year ago along 
with a large number of articles, describing its history and design in 
great detail. Because of the large number of articles like this one

 
https://mechanitis.blogspot.com/2011/06/dissecting-disruptor-whats-so-special.html

it's impossible to find the one that had left an impression on me at the 
time I read it. The article was describing their story from the 
beginning to finally getting to their current design, starting from a 
simple std::map, lock contentions and other concurrency pitfall. They 
finally settled on a multi-producer-single-consumer design where the 
consumer works on one thread. This was giving them the biggest CPU cache 
advantage.

The producers and the consumer share a ring buffer for communication. 
Perhaps the example you're looking for is in there somewhere. :)

Ali