Hands-On High Performance Programming with Qt 5

Chapter 5

1. Why is a data race an undefined behavior (UB) in C++? Because changes from one thread may not yet be visible in another thread, and thus some results would be not defined! Thread visibility is a concept we haven't discussed yet, but the main concept is that different threads are allowed to work on their local cache data and only push the changes to the other thread caches when they are forced to do so. We can force such an update using a memory fence, and memory fencing is part of the implementation of mutexes and atomic variables. See also the response to question 10.
2. What is resource acquisition is initialization (RAII) (we have seen it already in Chapter 3, Deep Dive into C++ and Performance), and how is it used in QAtomicLocker ...