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Modern C++ Programming Cookbook - Second Edition
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The thread support library from C++11 includes mutexes and condition variables that enable thread-synchronization to shared resources. A mutex allows only one thread of multiple processes to execute, while other threads that want to access a shared resource are put to sleep. Mutexes can be expensive to use in some scenarios. For this reason, the C++20 standard features several new simpler synchronization mechanisms: latches, barriers, and semaphores. Although these do not provide new use cases, they are simpler to use and can be more performant because they may internally rely on lock-free mechanisms.
At the time of writing this book, no compiler supports the C++20 thread synchronization mechanisms. Although based on the standard specifications, the sample code in this recipe could not be tested with any compiler, and we cannot guarantee their correctness.
The new C++20 synchronization mechanisms are defined...