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Concurrency with Modern C++

You're reading from   Concurrency with Modern C++ What every professional C++ programmer should know about concurrency.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2019
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ISBN-13 9781839211027
Length 543 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rainer Grimm Rainer Grimm
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

1. Reader Testimonials FREE CHAPTER
2. Introduction 3. Concurrency with Modern C++ 4. Memory Model 5. Multithreading 6. Parallel Algorithms of the Standard Template Library 7. The Near Future: C++20 8. Case Studies 9. The Future: C++23 10. Patterns and Best Practices 11. Synchronisation Patterns 12. Concurrent Architecture 13. Best Practices 14. Lock-Based Data Structures 15. Challenges 16. The Time Library 17. CppMem - An Overview 18. Glossary 19. Index

Synchronisation Patterns

The main concern when you deal with concurrency is shared, mutable state or as Tony Van Eerd put it in his CppCon 2014 talk “Lock-free by Example”: “Forget what you learned in Kindergarten (ie stop Sharing)”.

Mutable, shared state
Mutable, shared state

A necessary condition for a data race is a mutable, shared state. If you handle sharing or mutation, no data race can happen. This is exactly the focus of the next two sections: Dealing with Sharing and Dealing with Mutation.

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