What are some good resources for learning threaded programming? [closed]

Answer 1

I maintain a linkblog for concurrency articles, blogs, and projects at:

http://concurrency.tumblr.com

I usually post a link or two per day on a variety of topics (threads, actors, locking, parallel programming) in a variety of environments (Erlang, Java, Scala, .NET, C++, Ruby, Python, etc).

Answer 2

I write about multithreading and concurrency in C++ on my blog. I'm also writing a book on concurrency in C++: C++ Concurrency in Action.

Answer 3

I think Boost.Threads is a great C++ concurrency library to learn, especially if you just want to get started in writing multithreaded applications. The code is very succinct and easy to understand, plus the next C++ standard will likely include a threading library based on Boost.Threads (tutorial: http://www.ddj.com/cpp/184401518)

Answer 4

It's Delphi specific, but no reason why the concept wouldn't apply to any other language!

Multi Threading Tutorial

Answer 5

If you work with C#, the book "C# 2008 and 2005 threaded programming", by Gaston C. Hillar - Packt Publishing - http://www.packtpub.com/beginners-guide-for-C-sharp-2008-and-2005-threaded-programming/book , will help you. Highly recommended for C# programmers, because you can download the code with funny examples that exploit your multicore computer. The book is a nice guide with a lot of code to practice. It tells stories while it explains the most difficult concepts.

Answer 6

If you want to have a go at doing a highly parallel version of a simple task, or see real solutions, you could do worse than look at the wide finder project. Basically it's about how to do parallel regex matching of log files efficiently, but trying to add as little code as possible.

Participants have submitted solutions in many different languages and the performance results are posted. The original project has now finished and there is now wide finder 2 taking the work on.

CodingHorror has a good introduction to wide finder.