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Hands-On Design Patterns with C++ (Second Edition) - Second Edition

By : Fedor G. Pikus
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Hands-On Design Patterns with C++ (Second Edition) - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Fedor G. Pikus

Overview of this book

C++ is a general-purpose programming language designed for efficiency, performance, and flexibility. Design patterns are commonly accepted solutions to well-recognized design problems. In essence, they are a library of reusable components, only for software architecture, and not for a concrete implementation. This book helps you focus on the design patterns that naturally adapt to your needs, and on the patterns that uniquely benefit from the features of C++. Armed with the knowledge of these patterns, you’ll spend less time searching for solutions to common problems and tackle challenges with the solutions developed from experience. You’ll also explore that design patterns are a concise and efficient way to communicate, as patterns are a familiar and recognizable solution to a specific problem and can convey a considerable amount of information with a single line of code. By the end of this book, you’ll have a deep understanding of how to use design patterns to write maintainable, robust, and reusable software.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started with C++ Features and Concepts
5
Part 2: Common C++ Idioms
10
Part 3: C++ Design Patterns
18
Part 4: Advanced C++ Design Patterns

Concurrent design patterns and guidelines

Designing and implementing concurrent software is hard. Even the basic patterns for controlling access to shared data, such as the ones we saw in the last section, are complex and full of subtle details. Failing to notice one of these details usually results in hard-to-debug data races. To simplify the task of writing concurrent programs, the programming community came up with several guidelines. All of them arise out of earlier disastrous experiences, so take these guidelines seriously. Central to these guidelines is the concept of thread safety guarantees.

Thread safety guarantees

While this is not a pattern, it is a concept that is much broader in scope and one of the key design principles for any concurrent software. Every class, function, module, or component of a concurrent program should specify the thread safety guarantees it provides, as well as the guarantees it requires from the components it uses.

In general, a software...