Category Threading
A std::promise means nothing until it’s delivered.
I have really enjoyed reading Anthony Williams’s C++ Concurrency in Action and highly recommended it if you want to get up to speed on the new threading support provided in the C++11 standard. However, I did run into trouble on my first reading when, after the explanations of std::thread and the use of join() or […]
Models of Threaded Programming: Pipeline
While studying David Butenhof’s classic Programming with POSIX Threads I sketched out the following diagram to help me visualize the example ‘Pipeline’ threading model (for which he provides the source code in Chapter 4). I have simplified this somewhat (for example, as is standard practice, the predicate is actually checked both before and after the […]
Daniel Tarbotton 