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C++ Concurrency in Action
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C++ Concurrency in Action

by Anthony Williams
February 2012
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
17h 47m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 6. Designing lock-based concurrent data structures

This chapter covers
  • What it means to design data structures for concurrency
  • Guidelines for doing so
  • Example implementations of data structures designed for concurrency

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 ...

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