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Chapter 8

Communication and Synchronization Libraries

Max Domeika, Technical Project Manager, Intel Corporation, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR, USA

Chapter Outline

Library overview and basics

Message-passing APIs

Explicit threading libraries

Windows Threads

C11 and C++11 Threads

Synchronization functions

Thread-specific (Thread local) storage functions

Threading Building Blocks

Introduction

Effective parallelization of embedded applications requires use of communication and synchronization primitives. In order to increase developer efficiency, several libraries have been developed with the end result of easing application development. These libraries offer ...

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