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Re: Multithreading

From Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Multithreading
Date 2018-12-16 17:11 -1000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 09:48:48PM +0000, Scott wrote:
> Well, not specifically a C matter, but as I've made a project of
> converting an older program to leverage modern multi-core processors,
> it just happens to be in C and I just happen to have opted for
> pthreads since that works on all the platforms I use.
> 
> What I'd like to ask for are recommendations on resources for learning
> about the principles and pitfalls of threaded programming, in a
> general way, not tied to any specific implementation. I'm muddling my
> way through this exercise, but I have this feeling that I'm taking a
> Sunday stroll through a live minefield and just haven't managed to
> walk into anything really interesting yet.
> 
> As always, thanks very much for your help.

The gold standard for beginners is probably the Butenhof book [1].

Very friendly even if you've never heard of threads at all before, and
even if you aren't programming on an OS with POSIX threads it is still a
great introduction to the major concepts needed for concurrent programming
in my opinion.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Programming-POSIX-Threads-David-Butenhof/dp/0201633922

-- 
Cheers,
Joey Pabalinas

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Multithreading nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2018-12-16 21:48 +0000
  Re: Multithreading Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@gmail.com> - 2018-12-16 17:11 -1000
  Re: Multithreading rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2018-12-16 21:00 -0700
  Re: Multithreading Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2018-12-17 22:19 +0000
    Re: Multithreading Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@gmail.com> - 2018-12-17 12:45 -1000
    Re: Multithreading nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2018-12-19 19:48 +0000
      Re: Multithreading fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2018-12-19 11:58 -0800
      Re: Multithreading Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2018-12-19 23:17 +0000
        Re: Multithreading "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-12-19 15:31 -0800
          Re: Multithreading "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-12-19 15:34 -0800
        Re: Multithreading nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2018-12-22 10:43 +0000
          Re: Multithreading fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2018-12-22 03:41 -0800
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          Re: Multithreading Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2018-12-22 07:14 -0800
          Re: Multithreading rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2018-12-22 11:41 -0700
            Re: Multithreading "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-12-22 16:09 -0800
          Re: Multithreading scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-12-22 19:52 +0000
            Re: Multithreading "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-12-22 16:10 -0800
            Re: Multithreading nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2018-12-23 23:11 +0000
              Re: Multithreading "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-12-23 15:24 -0800
                Re: Multithreading "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-12-23 15:25 -0800
                Re: Multithreading fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2018-12-24 02:05 -0800
              Re: Multithreading fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2018-12-24 02:08 -0800
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          Re: Multithreading "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-12-19 15:37 -0800
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