Chapter 29. Threading and Synchronization

Today’s computers have tremendous processing power. Not only does this get reflected in clock speeds (which seem to have reached a ceiling due to heat dissipation challenges), but the number of processing cores in machines is ever increasing too. This trend toward many-core machines poses an ongoing challenge as to how to write software ...

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