C++ High Performance

Summary

In this chapter, we have seen how to create programs that can execute multiple threads concurrently. We have seen how to avoid data races by protecting critical sections with locks or by using atomics. We have looked into execution order and the C++ memory model, which becomes important to understand when writing lock-free programs. We have seen that immutable data structures are thread-safe. The chapter ended with some guidelines for improving the performance in concurrent applications.