Summary

In this chapter, we looked at a number of good practices and rules to keep in mind when writing multithreaded code, along with some general advice. At this point, one should be able to avoid some of the bigger pitfalls and major sources of confusion when writing such code.

In the next chapter, we will be looking at how to use the underlying hardware to our advantage with atomic operations, along with the <atomics> header that was also introduced with C++11.