5 Interprocess communication
In this chapter:
- You learn how to achieve effective task communication
- You learn how to choose a communication type for your applications
- You learn a popular programming pattern for creating concurrent applications: a thread pool
We can’t always guarantee that concurrent tasks running on a computer are independent. Often, communication between tasks is necessary for efficient execution. For example, if one task depends on the result of another, the application has to know when to pause its work while it waits for the other task to finish.
Communication is therefore at the heart of any concurrent system. If we cannot ensure proper communication between tasks, the performance gains from concurrency are meaningless. ...
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