Week 11

Linda and Tuple Space

Lecture Notes: PDF (updated and cont'd from slide 8)
Demo of Ruby/Rinda program
- from Wikipedia example:
```
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinda_(Ruby_programming_language)
```
  - link no longer live
  - I couldn't even find it on the wayback machine! (or lost patience looking)
- archived copy found here!: (thanks, Isaac!)
```
https://handwiki.org/wiki/Rinda_(Ruby_programming_language)
```
- sample code: copy from my directory
```
$ cp -r /home/mlsmith/cs377-examples/rinda/ ~/cs377/
```
- code walk of Producer Consumer v1
  - from slide 9 of notes
  - found in Marc's rinda/prodcons1 subdirectory
  - pay attention to:
    - readme.txt instructions for running
    - initialization of TS
    - shared data reside as tuples in TS
    - no semaphores; busy waiting possible

Assignment 6
- Due Thu, April 23
- Versions 2 and 3 from slides 11, 12 of PDF
  - (version 1 included in sample code)
  - versions from slides 11 and 12 are the versions to implement