Santa gave me a concurrency problem for Christmas...

Video Description

Watch as we take The Santa Claus problem, a classic computer science challenge from professor Jon Trono and develop a robust C++ solution! In this video I demonstrate the complexities of thread synchronization with this concurrency puzzle. Santa, Reindeer, and Elves mush coordinate their actions without falling into deadlock. Various research papers have been published about different solutions; some of which contained bugs! Many have tried, some have failed; are you up for the challenge? --- PoC Code Repo: https://github.com/LaurieWired/SantaClausProblem --- Follow LaurieWired on Social Media: ►https://linktr.ee/lauriewired --- Papers Cited: Trono (1994) - "A new exercise in concurrency" - DOI: 10.1145/187387.187391 Ben-Ari (1998) - "How to solve the Santa Claus problem" - DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(199805)10:6(485::AID-CPE329)3.0.CO;2-2 Benton (2003) - "Jingle Bells: Solving the Santa Claus Problem in Polyphonic C" --- Timestamps: 00:00 Background 02:25 Research Papers 03:53 Syncronization Primitives 07:17 C++ Demo 08:05 A Sneaky Bug 10:15 The Clever Fix 11:36 Closing Thoughts