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Concurrency with Modern C++

By : Rainer Grimm
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Concurrency with Modern C++

By: Rainer Grimm

Overview of this book

C++11 is the first C++ standard that deals with concurrency. The story goes on with C++17 and will continue with C++20/23. Concurrency with Modern C++ is a practical guide that gets you to grips with concurrent programming in Modern C++. Starting with the C++ memory model and using many ready-to-run code examples, the book covers everything you need to improve your C++ multithreading skills. You'll gain insight into different design patterns. You'll also uncover the general consideration you have to keep in mind while designing a concurrent data structure. The final chapter in the book talks extensively about the common pitfalls of concurrent programming and ways to overcome these hurdles. By the end of the book, you'll have the skills to build your own concurrent programs and enhance your knowledge base.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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RAII

Resource Acquisition Is Initialization, in short RAII, stands for a popular technique in C++, in which the resource acquisition and release are bound to the lifetime of an object. This means for a lock that the mutex will be locked in the constructor and unlocked in the destructor. This RAII implementation is also known as scoped locking.

Typical use cases in C++ are locks that handle the lifetime of its underlying mutex, smart pointers that handle the lifetime of its resource (memory), or containers of the standard template library that handle the lifetime of its elements.