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Mastering C++ Multithreading

By : Maya Posch
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Mastering C++ Multithreading

By: Maya Posch

Overview of this book

Multithreaded applications execute multiple threads in a single processor environment, allowing developers achieve concurrency. This book will teach you the finer points of multithreading and concurrency concepts and how to apply them efficiently in C++. Divided into three modules, we start with a brief introduction to the fundamentals of multithreading and concurrency concepts. We then take an in-depth look at how these concepts work at the hardware-level as well as how both operating systems and frameworks use these low-level functions. In the next module, you will learn about the native multithreading and concurrency support available in C++ since the 2011 revision, synchronization and communication between threads, debugging concurrent C++ applications, and the best programming practices in C++. In the final module, you will learn about atomic operations before moving on to apply concurrency to distributed and GPGPU-based processing. The comprehensive coverage of essential multithreading concepts means you will be able to efficiently apply multithreading concepts while coding in C++.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
8
Atomic Operations - Working with the Hardware

Revisiting Multithreading

Chances are that if you're reading this book, you have already done some multithreaded programming in C++, or, possibly, other languages. This chapter is meant to recap the topic purely from a C++ point of view, going through a basic multithreaded application, while also covering the tools we'll be using throughout the book. At the end of this chapter, you will have all the knowledge and information needed to proceed with the further chapters.

Topics covered in this chapter include the following:

  • Basic multithreading in C++ using the native API
  • Writing basic makefiles and usage of GCC/MinGW
  • Compiling a program using make and executing it on the command-line