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Producer–consumer, also known as the consumer–producer problem or the bounded-buffer problem, is a classical synchronization problem in concurrent programming. It involves two kinds of threads: producers that generate data items and place them into a shared, finite buffer, and consumers that remove items from the buffer for processing. The objective is to coordinate access so that producers never add items when the buffer is full, and consumers never remove items when it is empty, while ensuring mutual exclusion during buffer updates.
In a typical solution, the shared buffer is implemented as a fixed-size circular queue. Synchronization is provided
Extensions include multiple producers and consumers, unbounded buffers (which remove the full constraint but can risk
See also: bounded-buffer problem, inter-thread communication, producer–consumer pattern.