Chapter 1. Hello, world of concurrency in C++!
This chapter covers
- What is meant by concurrency and multithreading
- Why you might want to use concurrency and multithreading in your applications
- Some of the history of the support for concurrency in C++
- What a simple multithreaded C++ program looks like
These are exciting times for C++ users. Thirteen years after the original C++ Standard was published in 1998, the C++ Standards Committee is giving the language and its supporting library a major overhaul. The new C++ Standard (referred to as C++11 or C++0x) was published in 2011 and brings with it a whole swathe of changes that will make working with C++ easier and more productive.
One of the most significant new features ...
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