Disruptor Pattern: SPSC Ring Buffer - Quant Developer Interview Question
Difficulty: Hard
Category: concurrency
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Topics: concurrency, lock-free, design-pattern, cpp
Problem Description
The Disruptor pattern is a high-performance inter-thread messaging mechanism widely used in low-latency financial systems, such as order matching engines, to minimize jitter and maximize throughput. It utilizes a pre-allocated ring buffer with sequence barriers to coordinate data exchange between producers and consumers without the overhead of mutual exclusion locks.
Task
Implement the SpscRingBuffer class to facilitate lock-free communication between a single producer thread and a single consu
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