Parallel Programming Paradigms

Before we dive into parallel programming using C++, throughout the first two chapters, we will focus on acquiring some foundational knowledge about the different approaches to building parallel software and how the software interacts with the machine hardware.

In this chapter, we will introduce parallel programming and the different paradigms and models that we can use when developing efficient, responsive, and scalable concurrent and asynchronous software.

There are many ways to group concepts and methods when classifying the different approaches we can take to develop parallel software. As we are focusing on software built with C++ in this book, we can divide the different parallel programming paradigms as follows: concurrency, asynchronous programming, parallel programming, reactive programming, dataflows, multithreading programming, and event-driven programming.

Depending on the problem at hand, a specific paradigm could be more suitable...