I'm looking for a good guide/tutorial on multithreading in C++ (and ideally in general). Can anyone point me to a good online resource?
EDIT: I intend to familiarize myself with either the boost threading library or the one from Poco.
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If you mean to parallelize computation for multi-core, check out OpenMP. It has gcc and intel (I'm not sure about Visual C++) support, and is a lot easier than using primitives.
wrang-wrang
2009-09-04 22:20:08
Thanks for the link, I did not know about OpenMP before. I find this very interesting, however, my main goal is to find a good guide about multithreading like how to use locks, how to avoid deadlocks, etc...
StackedCrooked
2009-09-04 22:24:31
I'd be interested in an answer to that, too. It's tricky, so higher level constructs should be favored.
wrang-wrang
2009-09-04 22:30:46
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The Dr. Dobbs article "The Boost.Threads Library" is a short introduction to the subject, using one of the Boost C++ Libraries.
Peter Mortensen
2009-09-04 22:32:07
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Check out this useful video-lectures from Intel: http://software.intel.com/en-us/videos/three-things-you-must-teach-module-1-recognizing-potential-parallelism/
This tutorial covers:
- Importance of parallelism
- Shared memory model and threads
- OpenMP basics
The video tutorial is very short: about 60 minutes, so I hope you will find it useful.
Vova
2009-09-05 08:13:57
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That's not a tutorial, but a good set of articles Effective Concurrency by Herb Sutter.
Kirill V. Lyadvinsky
2009-09-05 08:37:37
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If you're going to use boost::thread, I'd make sure to check out Anthony Williams' website, blogs and articles he maintains boost::thread contributed to the C++0x library particularly the threading components and the information he provides is accurate, relevant and concise.
He also has a book coming out this fall on modern C++ threading called Concurrency in Action.
Joe Duffy's book and blog is also a good resource.
Rick
2009-09-11 19:59:01