5. A Tour of C++: Concurrency and Utilities

When you wish to instruct, be brief.

– Cicero

• Introduction

• Resource Management

unique_ptr and shared_ptr

• Concurrency

Tasks and threads; Passing Arguments; Returning Results; Sharing Data; Communicating Tasks

• Small Utility Components

Time; Type Functions; pair and tuple

• Regular Expressions

• Math

Mathematical Functions and Algorithms; Complex Numbers; Random Numbers; Vector Arithmetic; Numeric Limits

• Advice

5.1. Introduction

From an end-user’s perspective, the ideal standard library would provide components directly supporting essentially every need. For a given application domain, a huge commercial library can come close to that ideal. However, that is not what the C++ standard library ...

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