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The C++ Programmer's Mindset

The C++ Programmer's Mindset

By : Sam Morley
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The C++ Programmer's Mindset

The C++ Programmer's Mindset

By: Sam Morley

Overview of this book

Solve complex problems in C++ by learning how to think like a computer scientist. This book introduces computational thinking—a framework for solving problems using decomposition, abstraction, and pattern recognition—and shows you how to apply it using modern C++ features. You'll learn how to break down challenges, choose the right abstractions, and build solutions that are both maintainable and efficient. Through small examples and a large case study, this book guides you from foundational concepts to high-performance applications. You’ll explore reusable templates, algorithms, modularity, and even parallel computing and GPU acceleration. With each chapter, you’ll not only expand your C++ skillset, but also refine the way you approach and solve real-world problems. Written by a seasoned research engineer and C++ developer, this book combines practical insight with academic rigor. Whether you're designing algorithms or profiling production code, this book helps you deliver elegant, effective solutions with confidence.
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Making data safely accessible with mutex locks

Any programmer will tell you that one of the first problems one might encounter in a multithreaded program is data races. This is where one thread reads a value that is modified by another thread. Since the order of thread execution is non-deterministic, one cannot know in which order the read and write occur. Thus, the value that is accessed is unknowable. Most programming languages provide mechanisms for preventing data races, such as mutual exclusion (mutex) locks.

Mutex locks are a very big hammer for preventing data races. The idea is that one thread acquires the lock and then performs work that modifies the data that the lock protects. Each new thread that tries to acquire the lock now blocks (it doesn’t proceed any further, yielding to the operating system to allow other processes/threads to run) until the original thread releases the lock. This obviously means that your program cannot do as much work; the purpose of...

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