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C++ Concurrency in Action, Second Edition
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C++ Concurrency in Action, Second Edition

by Anthony Williams
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
592 pages
20h 37m
English
Manning Publications
Content preview from C++ Concurrency in Action, Second Edition

Chapter 1. Hello, world of concurrency in C++!

This chapter covers

  • What is meant by concurrency and multithreading
  • Why you might want to use concurrency and multithreading in your applications
  • Some of the history of the support for concurrency in C++
  • What a simple multithreaded C++ program looks like

These are exciting times for C++ users. Thirteen years after the original C++ Standard was published in 1998, the C++ Standards Committee gave the language and its supporting library a major overhaul. The new C++ Standard (referred to as C++11 or C++0x) was published in 2011 and brought with it a swath of changes that made working with C++ easier and more productive. The Committee also committed to a new “train model” of releases, with a new ...

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