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Advanced C++

By : Gazihan Alankus, Olena Lizina, Rakesh Mane, Vivek Nagarajan, Brian Price
5 (1)
Book Image

Advanced C++

5 (1)
By: Gazihan Alankus, Olena Lizina, Rakesh Mane, Vivek Nagarajan, Brian Price

Overview of this book

C++ is one of the most widely used programming languages and is applied in a variety of domains, right from gaming to graphical user interface (GUI) programming and even operating systems. If you're looking to expand your career opportunities, mastering the advanced features of C++ is key. The book begins with advanced C++ concepts by helping you decipher the sophisticated C++ type system and understand how various stages of compilation convert source code to object code. You'll then learn how to recognize the tools that need to be used in order to control the flow of execution, capture data, and pass data around. By creating small models, you'll even discover how to use advanced lambdas and captures and express common API design patterns in C++. As you cover later chapters, you'll explore ways to optimize your code by learning about memory alignment, cache access, and the time a program takes to run. The concluding chapter will help you to maximize performance by understanding modern CPU branch prediction and how to make your code cache-friendly. By the end of this book, you'll have developed programming skills that will set you apart from other C++ programmers.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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6. Streams and I/O

5. The Philosophers' Dinner – Threads and Concurrency

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

  • Create synchronous and asynchronous multithreaded applications
  • Apply synchronization to handle data hazards and race conditions
  • Develop efficient multithreaded code with C++ thread library primitives
  • Create threads using move semantics for multithreading closures
  • Implement thread communication with futures, promises, and async

In this chapter, we will clarify the difference between basic terms in multithreaded programming, learn how to write multi-threaded code, find out which resources are provided by the C++ Standard Library for data access synchronization, learn how to prevent our code from encountering race conditions and deadlocks.