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C++ Reactive Programming

By : Praseed Pai, Peter Abraham
Book Image

C++ Reactive Programming

By: Praseed Pai, Peter Abraham

Overview of this book

Reactive programming is an effective way to build highly responsive applications with an easy-to-maintain code base. This book covers the essential functional reactive concepts that will help you build highly concurrent, event-driven, and asynchronous applications in a simpler and less error-prone way. C++ Reactive Programming begins with a discussion on how event processing was undertaken by different programming systems earlier. After a brisk introduction to modern C++ (C++17), you’ll be taken through language-level concurrency and the lock-free programming model to set the stage for our foray into the Functional Programming model. Following this, you’ll be introduced to RxCpp and its programming model. You’ll be able to gain deep insights into the RxCpp library, which facilitates reactive programming. You’ll learn how to deal with reactive programming using Qt/C++ (for the desktop) and C++ microservices for the Web. By the end of the book, you will be well versed with advanced reactive programming concepts in modern C++ (C++17).
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 4. Asynchronous and Lock-Free Programming in C++

In the previous chapter, we looked at the threading library introduced by Modern C++ and various ways to create, manage, and synchronize threads. The way of writing code with threads is a rather low level and is prone to potential errors associated with concurrent code (deadlock, live-lock, and so on). Even though it is not noticed by many programmers, the Modern C++ language provides a standard memory model that helps to write concurrent code better. To be a concurrent programming language from the ground up, a language has to provide certain guarantees to the developer regarding memory access and the order in which things will be executed during runtime. If we are using constructs such as mutexes, condition variables, and futures to signal events, one doesn't need to be aware of the memory model. But awareness of the memory model and its guarantees will help us write faster concurrent code using lock-free programming techniques....