Chapter 9. Threads
IN THIS CHAPTER
When a program becomes complex, it can happen that the program cannot be managed in one thread any more. Just think of a Web server. Many people want to retrieve data concurrently, so the Web server has to manage many different operations at a time.
In general, there are two ways to implement concurrency. One way is to use multiple processes. The kernel of the operating system makes sure that every process gets enough CPU power and I/O to get the job done. The second way is to have one process doing all the work with the help of threads.
Threads are a good choice to achieve some sort of parallelism because they're fast. This chapter is dedicated ...
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