Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: Asynchronous Programming Fundamentals
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Concurrency and Asynchronous Programming: a Detailed Overview
Technical requirements
An evolutionary journey of multitasking
Non-preemptive multitasking
Preemptive multitasking
Hyper-threading
Multicore processors
Do you really write synchronous code?
Concurrency versus parallelism
The mental model I use
Let’s draw some parallels to process economics
Concurrency and its relation to I/O
What about threads provided by the operating system?
Choosing the right reference frame
Asynchronous versus concurrent
The role of the operating system
Concurrency from the operating system’s perspective
Teaming up with the operating system
Communicating with the operating system
The CPU ...
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