Chapter 7. Threads and Scheduling
The thread is the basic unit of execution in Windows, and a process can contain multiple, independent threads sharing the process’s address space and other resources. Chapter 6 limited processes to a single thread, but there are many situations in which multiple threads are desirable. This chapter describes and illustrates Windows thread management and introduces program parallelism. The example programs use threads to simplify program design and to enhance performance. Chapter 8 continues with a description of synchronization objects and the performance impact, positive and negative. Chapter 9 examines performance tuning and trade-off issues and describes new NT6 locking and thread pool features. Chapter 10 ...
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