Chapter 8

1. Two operations run concurrently if their start and end times are interleaved at any point.
2. Parallelism means that tasks run simultaneously, while concurrency does not force the tasks to run at the same time.
3. A process is the image of the program. It's a combination of program instructions and data loaded into the computer memory.
4. A thread is a section of code in the scope of a process that can be scheduled by the operating system scheduler, while a process is the image of the running program.
5. Refer to any example in the chapter.
6. By using double-checked locking.
7. Refer to the source code for the chapter in GitHub.
8. C++20 introduced coroutines as an addition to the classic asynchronous functions. Coroutines move the background execution of the code to the next level. They allow a function to be paused and resumed when necessary. co_await is a construct telling the...