Shared-memory programming
threads
Abstract
Threads are the basic vehicle for utilizing multicore platforms. In this chapter we explore in detail all the aspects of a thread’s lifetime, including creation, control, coordination and termination.
Thread-based development requires significant effort when compared to automated systems like OpenMP, but threads can make-up for this by affording a greater degree of control and potentially delivering more performance.
In this chapter we start from a brief, gentle introduction to concurrency using processes, before moving to threads. Modern threading libraries like Qt, provide advanced thread management facilities, that allow a programmer to utilize threads without the hassle of explicitly ...
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