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Author: Anthony Williams
ISBN : 1933988770
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Anthony Williams is a UK-based developer and consultant with many years experience in C++. He has been an active member of the BSI C++ Standards Panel since 2001, and is author or coauthor of many of the C++ Standards Committee papers that led up to the inclusion of the thread library in the new C++ Standard, known as C++11 or C++0x. He has been the maintainer of the Boost Thread library since 2006, and is the developer of the just::thread implementation of the C++11 thread library from Just Software Solutions Ltd. Anthony lives in the far west of Cornwall, England.
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- Paperback: 528 pages
- Publisher: Manning Publications (February 28, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1933988770
- ISBN-13: 978-1933988771
- Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 7.5 x 9.2 inches
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"C++ Concurrency In Action: Practical Multithreading" by Anthony Williams is the first book to come out on multithreading and concurrency in the new C++. Williams is currently the primary developer and maintainer of the Boost.Thread library, a writer of many proposals for the C++11 thread library, and has for a while now provided (for a price) its first complete implementation (just::thread).
The Good: at long last C++ is thread-aware and this book shows the reader how to harness this newfound power. Williams starts out by introducing a number of thread-related concepts, like mutexes, condition variables, futures, promises, and atomics. This is an example-based book, so every new topic is fleshed out in code. Having introduced these concepts, the author goes on to apply them by designing lock-based concurrent data structures (a stack, a queue, a lookup table, and a linked list). Williams also shows how to use atomic operations to create lock-free stacks and queues. The book then examines more involved topics like thread pools (for which C++17 will probably have built-in support, though Williams doesn't venture a guess) and is rounded out by a welcome overview of how to identify deadlocks, livelocks, data races, and so on. Given the thematic breakup of the chapters, as well as the wealth of the material collected in the Appendices, this book will come in very handy as a reference. More specifically, Appendix B has a nice comparison of the new C++ multithreading facilities with Java threads, POSIX threads, and the Boost Thread library. Even better is Appendix D, a very useful 120-page reference of the C++11 thread library, which is more usable in digital form (as part of the ebook or the online version of the just::thread documentation).