Copyright
Brief Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Praise for the first edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
About this book
About the author
About the cover illustration
Chapter 1. Hello, world of concurrency in C++!
1.1. What is concurrency?
1.1.1. Concurrency in computer systems
1.1.2. Approaches to concurrency
1.1.3. Concurrency vs. parallelism
1.2. Why use concurrency?
1.2.1. Using concurrency for separation of concerns
1.2.2. Using concurrency for performance: task and data parallelism
1.2.3. When not to use concurrency
1.3. Concurrency and multithreading in C++
1.3.1. History of multithreading in C++
1.3.2. Concurrency support in the C++11 standard
1.3.3. More support for concurrency and parallelism in C++14 and C++17
1.3.4. Efficiency in the C++ Thread Library
1.3.5. Platform-specific facilities
1.4. Getting started
1.4.1. Hello, Concurrent World
Summary
Chapter 2. Managing threads
2.1. Basic thread management
2.1.1. Launching a thread
2.5. Identifying threads
