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Mastering C++ Multithreading

Mastering C++ Multithreading

By : Maya Posch
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Mastering C++ Multithreading

Mastering C++ Multithreading

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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++.
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Atomic Operations - Working with the Hardware

POSIX threads


Pthreads were first defined in the POSIX.1c standard (Threads extensions, IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995) from 1995 as an extension to the POSIX standard. At the time, UNIX had been chosen as a manufacturer-neutral interface, with POSIX unifying the various APIs among them.

Despite this standardization effort, differences still exist in Pthread implementations between OS's which implement it (for example, between Linux and OS X), courtesy of non-portable extensions (marked with _np in the method name).

For the pthread_setname_np method, the Linux implementation takes two parameters, allowing one to set the name of a thread other than the current thread. On OS X (since 10.6), this method only takes one parameter, allowing one to set the name of the current thread only. If portability is a concern, one has to be mindful of such differences.

After 1997, the POSIX standard revisions were managed by the Austin Joint Working Group. These revisions merge the threads extension into the main standard...

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