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C++ Multithreading Cookbook

By : Miloš Ljumović
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C++ Multithreading Cookbook

By: Miloš Ljumović

Overview of this book

<p>Creating multithreaded applications is a present-day approach towards programming. With the power of C++, you can easily create various types of applications and perform parallelism and optimizations in your existing work. This book is a practical, powerful, and easy-to-understand guide to C++ multithreading. You will learn how to benefit from the multithreaded approach and enhance your development skills to build better applications. This book will not only help you avoid problems when creating parallel code, but also help you to understand synchronization techniques. The end goal of the book will be to impart various multithreading concepts that will enable you to do parallel computing and concurrent programming quickly and efficiently.</p>

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C++ Multithreading Cookbook
Miloš Ljumović
Aug, 2014 | 422 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
C++ Multithreading Cookbook
C++ Multithreading Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to C++ Concepts and Features
Introduction to C++ Concepts and Features
Introduction
Creating a C++ project
Program structure, execution flow, and runtime objects
The structural programming approach
Understanding the object-oriented programming approach
Explaining inheritance, overloading, and overriding
Understanding polymorphism
Event handlers and Message Passing Interface
Linked list, queue, and stack examples
2
The Concepts of Process and Thread
The Concepts of Process and Thread
Introduction
Processes and threads
Explaining the process model
Implementation of processes
IPC – Interprocess Communication
Solving classical IPC problems
Implementation of the thread model
Thread usage
Implementing threads in user space
Implementing threads in the kernel
3
Managing Threads
Managing Threads
Introduction
Processes versus threads
Permissive versus preemptive multitasking
Explaining the Windows Thread object
Basic thread management
Implementing threads without synchronization
Using synchronized threads
Win32 synchronization objects and techniques
4
Message Passing
Message Passing
Introduction
Explaining the Message Passing Interface
Understanding a message queue
Using the thread message queue
Communicating through the pipe object
5
Thread Synchronization and Concurrent Operations
Thread Synchronization and Concurrent Operations
Introduction
Pseudoparallelism
Understanding process and thread priority
The Windows dispatcher object and scheduling
Using mutex
Using semaphore
Using event
Using critical section
Using pipes
6
Threads in the .NET Framework
Threads in the .NET Framework
Introduction
Managed versus unmanaged code
How threading works in .NET
The difference between foreground and background threads
Understanding the .NET synchronization essentials
Locking and avoiding deadlocks
Thread safety and types of the .NET framework
Signaling with event wait handles
Event-based Asynchronous Pattern
Using the BackgroundWorker class
Interrupting, aborting, and safe canceling the thread execution
Non-blocking synchronization
Signaling with Wait and Pulse
The Barrier class
7
Understanding Concurrent Code Design
Understanding Concurrent Code Design
Introduction
How to design parallel applications
Understanding parallelism in code design
Turning on to a parallel approach
Improving the performance factors
8
Advanced Thread Management
Advanced Thread Management
Introduction
Using thread pools
Customizing the thread pool dispatcher
Using remote threading
Appendix
Appendix
Installing MySQL Connector/C
Installing WinDDK – Driver Development Kit
Setting up a Visual Studio project for driver compilation
Using the DebugView application
Setting up a Visual Studio project for OpenMP compilation
Index
Index

Installing MySQL Connector/C

In order to use MySQL Connector/C, you need to perform the following operations:

  1. Open your web browser and navigate to http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/c/.

  2. Download the mysql-connector-c-6.1.3-win32.msi or mysql-connector-c-6.1.3-winx64.msi file, depending on your architecture and project configuration, and then start the installation as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Accept the terms in the license agreement and select the Complete type of installation. Click on Finish and open Visual Studio, and then open the MultithreadedDBTest solution.

  4. Open Solution explorer and right-click on the MultithreadedDBTest project. Select Properties. Under Configuration Properties, expand the General node. Open the combobox next to Additional Include Directories, and using the Windows folder browser, navigate to C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Connector C 6.1\include, as shown in the following screenshot:

  5. Click on Select Folder.

  6. Under Configuration Properties, expand the Linker node. Open the combobox next to Additional Dependences and enter C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Connector C 6.1\lib\libmysql.lib, as shown in the following screenshot:

  7. Using the Windows file explorer, navigate to C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Connector C 6.1\lib. Copy the libmysql.dll file to C:\Windows\System32.

Now, you can compile and run the MultithreadedDBTest project or any other project that uses MySQL Connector/C.

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