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Hands-On Concurrency with Rust

You're reading from   Hands-On Concurrency with Rust Confidently build memory-safe, parallel, and efficient software in Rust

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788399975
Length 462 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Preliminaries – Machine Architecture and Getting Started with Rust FREE CHAPTER 2. Sequential Rust Performance and Testing 3. The Rust Memory Model – Ownership, References and Manipulation 4. Sync and Send – the Foundation of Rust Concurrency 5. Locks – Mutex, Condvar, Barriers and RWLock 6. Atomics – the Primitives of Synchronization 7. Atomics – Safely Reclaiming Memory 8. High-Level Parallelism – Threadpools, Parallel Iterators and Processes 9. FFI and Embedding – Combining Rust and Other Languages 10. Futurism – Near-Term Rust 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Preliminaries – Machine Architecture and Getting Started with Rust

In this chapter, we'll work through the preliminaries of the book, making sure to cover the basics necessary to frame the remainder of the book. This book is about parallel programming in the Rust programing language. It's essential, then, to understand modern computing hardware at a high level. We'll need a sense of how a modern CPU operates, how memory buses influence the CPU's ability to perform work and what it means for a computer to be able to do multiple things at once. In addition, we'll discuss validating your Rust installation, and cover generating executables for the two CPU architectures that this book will be concerned with. 

By the close of this chapter, we will have:

  • Discussed a high-level model of CPU operations
  • Discussed a high-level model of computer memory
  • Had a preliminary discussion of the Rust memory model
  • Investigated generating runnable Rust programs for x86 and ARM 
  • Investigated debugging these programs
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Hands-On Concurrency with Rust
Published in: May 2018
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781788399975
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