Good multithreading guides? [closed]

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

That's not a tutorial, but a good set of articles Effective Concurrency by Herb Sutter.

Answer 3

The Dr. Dobbs article "The Boost.Threads Library" is a short introduction to the subject, using one of the Boost C++ Libraries.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

Take a look at Concurrent Programming on Windows by Joe Duffy. The book is relative new (November 2008) and covers theory and practice ranging topics from the Win32 API to .NET Framework 3.5.

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