The C++ standardization committee is hard at work standardizing threads for the next version of C++. Some members recently met to discuss the issues, and The C++ Source was there. Read on to learn what the world’s leading experts on concurrency are plan
I participated in the design and development of a couple of concurrency libraries for shared-memory multiprocessors long before such machines were popular. So when I started using java.util.concurrent I was already somewhat comfortable with the concepts.
Note that I made a grave error of thinking before writing this article: I forgot the copy-on-write page sharing of modern Unices. I added two paragraphs to this article that should clarify the point. Thanks for your comment, Alex.
The threading module provides an easy way to work with threads. Its Thread class may be subclassed to create a thread or threads. The run method should contain the code you wish to be executed when the thread is executed.
Intel® Threading Building Blocks (TBB) offers a rich and complete approach to expressing parallelism in a C++ program. It is a library that helps you take advantage of multi-core processor performance without having to be a threading expert. Threading Building Blocks is not just a threads-replacement library. It represents a higher-level, task-based parallelism that abstracts platform details and threading mechanisms for scalability and performance.
a rich approach to expressing parallelism in a C++ program. It is a library that helps you take advantage of multi-core processor performance without having to be a threading expert.
provides a software development platform that allows developers to take advantage of a new generation of high performance processors. These new processors, including GPUs, the IBM Cell, and other multi-core processors
If you have a Win32-based application that you want to port to Mac OS X and you are primarily a Windows programmer, read this article to get a solid grounding in how Mac OS X handles multithreading.