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C++ Multithreading Cookbook

By : Miloš Ljumović
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C++ Multithreading Cookbook

By: Miloš Ljumović

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<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

Acknowledgments

I am grateful to many for writing this book.

I dedicate this book to my parents Radoslav and Slavka and to my sisters Natalija and Dušanka, who are always there for me no matter what. I am specially grateful to my mother, without whom I wouldn't became a programmer.

An even greater thanks goes to my beautiful wife, Lara, for putting up with me, for all her patience and love towards me, for all her unconditional support, and for teaching me never to give up. Volim te.

My appreciation goes to my dear friend Danijel who taught me how to be great businessman and pushed me over the edge to be better programmer each day.

I would also like to thank my professors from the University of Montenegro, without whom I wouldn't be the expert I am today. A special thanks to Rajko Ćalasan for endless hours teaching me programming, Milo Tomašević for providing me with expertise in object-orienting programming, and making me love C++ the way I do today, and especially to Goran Šuković, the greatest teacher of all, for constantly guiding me and teaching me various areas of computer science and making me wish and get more and more knowledge each day.

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