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The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition
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The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition

by Bjarne Stroustrup
May 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1376 pages
47h 26m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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42. Threads and Tasks

Keep Calm and Carry On.

– English slogan

Introduction

Threads

Identity; Construction; Destruction; join(); detach(); Namespace this_thread; Killing a thread; thread_local Data

Avoiding Data Races

Mutexes; Multiple Locks; call_once(); Condition Variables

Task-Based Concurrency

future and promise; promise; packaged_task; future; shared_future; async(); A Parallel find() Example

Advice

42.1. Introduction

Concurrency – the execution of several tasks simultaneously – is widely used to improve throughput (by using several processors for a single computation) or to improve responsiveness (by allowing one part of a program to progress while another is waiting for a response).

The C++ standard support for concurrency ...

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