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Expert C++ - Second Edition

By : Marcelo Guerra Hahn, Araks Tigranyan, John Asatryan, Vardan Grigoryan, Shunguang Wu
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Book Image

Expert C++ - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Marcelo Guerra Hahn, Araks Tigranyan, John Asatryan, Vardan Grigoryan, Shunguang Wu

Overview of this book

Are you an experienced C++ developer eager to take your skills to the next level? This updated edition of Expert C++ is tailored to propel you toward your goals. This book takes you on a journey of building C++ applications while exploring advanced techniques beyond object-oriented programming. Along the way, you'll get to grips with designing templates, including template metaprogramming, and delve into memory management and smart pointers. Once you have a solid grasp of these foundational concepts, you'll advance to more advanced topics such as data structures with STL containers and explore advanced data structures with C++. Additionally, the book covers essential aspects like functional programming, concurrency, and multithreading, and designing concurrent data structures. It also offers insights into designing world-ready applications, incorporating design patterns, and addressing networking and security concerns. Finally, it adds to your knowledge of debugging and testing and large-scale application design. With Expert C++ as your guide, you'll be empowered to push the boundaries of your C++ expertise and unlock new possibilities in software development.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1:Under the Hood of C++ Programming
7
Part 2: Designing Robust and Efficient Applications
18
Part 3:C++ in the AI World

Concurrency and Multithreading

Concurrent programming allows us to create more efficient programs. C++ didn’t have built-in support for concurrency or multithreading for a long time. Now, it has full support for concurrent programming, threads, thread synchronization objects, and other functionality that we will discuss in this chapter.

Before the language was updated for thread support, programmers had to use third-party libraries. One of the most popular multithreading solutions was Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) threads. C++ introduced thread support with C++11. It makes the language even more robust and applicable to wider areas of software development. Understanding threads is somewhat crucial for C++ programmers as they tend to squeeze every bit of the program to make it run even faster. Threads introduce us to a completely different way of making programs faster by running functions concurrently. Learning about multithreading at a fundamental level is...