Chapter 8. Designing concurrent code

This chapter covers
  • Techniques for dividing data between threads
  • Factors that affect the performance of concurrent code
  • How performance factors affect the design of data structures
  • Exception safety in multithreaded code
  • Scalability
  • Example implementations of several parallel algorithms

Most of the preceding chapters have focused on the tools you have in your new C++11 toolbox for writing concurrent code. In chapters 6 and 7 we looked at how to use those tools to design basic data structures that are safe for concurrent access by multiple threads. Much as a carpenter needs to know more than just how to build a hinge or a joint in order to make a cupboard or a table, there’s more to ...

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