Mastering C++ Multithreading

Defining multithreading

Over the past decades, a lot of different terms related to the way tasks are processed by a computer have been coined and come into common use. Many of these are also used interchangeably, correctly or not. An example of this is multithreading in comparison with multiprocessing.

Here, the latter means running one task per processor in a system with multiple physical processors, while the former means running multiple tasks on a singular processor simultaneously, thus giving the illusion that they are all being executed simultaneously:

Another interesting distinction between multiprocessing and multitasking is that the ...