A recommendation for a good programming book in Threads and Concurrency in c\c++

Question

HI all!

I'm currently taking the course Operating Systems in my university. We mainly study theory and have simple exercises in c++ to exercise some theoretical principles. I want to study more about the practical programming in concurrency and threads in c\c++ and i was wondering if any of you have a good book to recommend on.

Thank you all

Solution 1

I have also been looking for such a book, they are very hard to come by. This one will be released in May, if that's any help:

http://www.manning.com/williams/

I purchased this book:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0123705916/ref=oss_product

It's very good, it's in java, but most of the principles apply to c/c++ anyway.

Solution 2

1. Introduction to parallel computing: https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/parallel_comp/
2. POSIX threads programming: https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/

Solution 3

If you will be working with UNIX-like systems, then I recommend Programming With POSIX Threads by David R. Butenhof.

If you will be working with Microsoft Windows, then I recommend Writing Multithreaded Applications in Win32 by Jim Beveridge and Robert Wiener.

Irrespective of which threading package(s) you will end up using, I recommend you look at two presentations I wrote: Generic Synchronization Policies and Multi-threaded Performance Pitfalls. Those short presentations contain useful information that, unfortunately, is not discussed in many other books and articles.