You're reading from The Art of Writing Efficient Programs An advanced programmer's guide to efficient hardware utilization and compiler optimizations using C++ examples

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800208117

Length 464 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Cmake

Concepts

High Performance Programming

Author (1):

Fedor G. Pikus

Preface

1. Section 1 – Performance Fundamentals

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Performance and Concurrency FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Performance Measurements

4. Chapter 3: CPU Architecture, Resources, and Performance

5. Chapter 4: Memory Architecture and Performance

6. Chapter 5: Threads, Memory, and Concurrency

7. Section 2 – Advanced Concurrency

8. Chapter 6: Concurrency and Performance

9. Chapter 7: Data Structures for Concurrency

10. Chapter 8: Concurrency in C++

11. Section 3 – Designing and Coding High-Performance Programs

12. Chapter 9: High-Performance C++

13. Chapter 10: Compiler Optimizations in C++

14. Chapter 11: Undefined Behavior and Performance

15. Chapter 12: Design for Performance

16. Assessments

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 5:

The memory model describes the interaction of threads through shared memory; it is the set of restrictions and guarantees that are given when multiple threads access the same data in memory.
On the one hand, if we did not need the shared data, all threads would run completely independently, and the program would scale perfectly as long as more processors are available. Also, writing such a program is no harder than writing a single-threaded program. On the other hand, all the bugs related to concurrency ultimately arise from invalid access to some shared data.
The overall memory model is a superposition of the several memory models for different components of the system: first of all, the hardware has a memory model that applies to any program running on it. The OS and the runtime environment may provide additional restrictions and guarantees. Finally, the compiler implements the memory model of the language such as C++ and may impose additional restrictions...