Acknowledgments

I will start by saying a big “Thank you” to my wife, Kim, for all the love and support she has given me while writing this book. The first edition occupied a significant part of my spare time for the four years before publication, and the second edition has again required a significant investment of time, and without her patience, support, and understanding, I couldn’t have managed it.

Second, I would like to thank the team at Manning who have made this book possible: Marjan Bace, publisher; Michael Stephens, associate publisher; Cynthia Kane, my development editor; Aleksandar Dragosavljević, review editor; Safis Editing and Heidi Ward, my copyeditors; and Melody Dolab, my proofreader. Without their efforts you would not be reading this book right now.

I would also like to thank the other members of the C++ Standards Committee who wrote committee papers on the multithreading facilities: Andrei Alexandrescu, Pete Becker, Bob Blainer, Hans Boehm, Beman Dawes, Lawrence Crowl, Peter Dimov, Jeff Garland, Kevlin Henney, Howard Hinnant, Ben Hutchings, Jan Kristofferson, Doug Lea, Paul McKenney, Nick McLaren, Clark Nelson, Bill Pugh, Raul Silvera, Herb Sutter, Detlef Vollmann, and Michael Wong, plus all those who commented on the papers, discussed them at the committee meetings, and otherwise helped shaped the multithreading and concurrency support in C++11, C++14, C++17, and the Concurrency TS.