February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
20h 37m
English
This chapter covers
In the last chapter we looked at the low-level details of atomic operations and the memory model. In this chapter we’ll take a break from the low-level details (although we’ll need them for chapter 7) and think about data structures.
The choice of data structure to use for a programming problem can be a key part of the overall solution, and parallel programming problems are no exception. If a data structure is to be accessed from multiple threads, either it must be completely immutable so the data never changes and ...