C++ Multithreading Cookbook -- Table of Contents -- C++ Multithreading Cookbook -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Introduction to C++ Concepts and Features -- Introduction -- Creating a C++ project -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Program structure, execution flow, and runtime objects -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- The structural programming approach -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more… -- Understanding the object-oriented programming approach -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Explaining inheritance, overloading, and overriding -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Understanding polymorphism -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Event handlers and Message Passing Interface -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Linked list, queue, and stack examples -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- 2. The Concepts of Process and Thread -- Introduction -- Processes and threads -- Explaining the process model -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Implementation of processes -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- IPC - Interprocess Communication -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Solving classical IPC problems -- The dining philosophers problem -- Getting ready.

How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also... -- Implementation of the thread model -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Thread usage -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Implementing threads in user space -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Implementing threads in the kernel -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- 3. Managing Threads -- Introduction -- Processes versus threads -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Permissive versus preemptive multitasking -- Explaining the Windows Thread object -- Basic thread management -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Implementing threads without synchronization -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Using synchronized threads -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Win32 synchronization objects and techniques -- Synchronization object - mutex -- Synchronization object - semaphore -- Synchronization object - event -- Synchronization object - critical section -- 4. Message Passing -- Introduction -- Explaining the Message Passing Interface -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Understanding a message queue -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Using the thread message queue -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Communicating through the pipe object -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- 5. Thread Synchronization and Concurrent Operations -- Introduction -- Pseudoparallelism -- Understanding process and thread priority -- Getting ready.

How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- The Windows dispatcher object and scheduling -- Using mutex -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Using semaphore -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Using event -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Using critical section -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Using pipes -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- 6. Threads in the .NET Framework -- Introduction -- Managed versus unmanaged code -- How threading works in .NET -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- The difference between foreground and background threads -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Understanding the .NET synchronization essentials -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Locking and avoiding deadlocks -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Thread safety and types of the .NET framework -- Signaling with event wait handles -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Event-based Asynchronous Pattern -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Using the BackgroundWorker class -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Interrupting, aborting, and safe canceling the thread execution -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Safe cancelation -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Non-blocking synchronization -- Signaling with Wait and Pulse -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- The Barrier class.

Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- 7. Understanding Concurrent Code Design -- Introduction -- How to design parallel applications -- Understanding parallelism in code design -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Turning on to a parallel approach -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Improving the performance factors -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- 8. Advanced Thread Management -- Introduction -- Using thread pools -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Customizing the thread pool dispatcher -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Using remote threading -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also... -- A. Appendix -- Installing MySQL Connector/C -- Installing WinDDK - Driver Development Kit -- Setting up a Visual Studio project for driver compilation -- Using the DebugView application -- Setting up a Visual Studio project for OpenMP compilation -- Index.