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C++ Core Guidelines: Concurrency and lock-free Programming

June 19, 2018

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Today, I will finish the rules for concurrency and continue directly with lock-free programming. Yes,…

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C++ Core Guidelines: Be Aware of the Traps of Condition Variables

June 1, 2018

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Today, I am writing a scary post about condition variables. You should be aware of these issues of condition…

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C++ Core Guidelines: More Traps in the Concurrency

May 24, 2018

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Concurrency provides many ways to shoot yourself in the foot. The rules for today help you to know these…

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C++ Core Guidelines: Taking Care of your Child Thread

May 18, 2018

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When you create a new child thread, you must answer an important question: should you wait for the child…

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C++ Core Guidelines: Sharing Data between Threads

May 11, 2018

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If you want to have fun with threads, you should share mutable data between them. To get no data race…

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C++ Core Guidelines: Use Tools to Validate your Concurrent Code

May 4, 2018

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Today, I'm happy to write about the probably most important C++ Core Guidelines for concurrency rule:…

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C++ Core Guidelines: More Rules about Concurrency and Parallelism

April 27, 2018

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Writing multithreading programs is hard, even harder if the program should be correct. The rules of the…

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C++ Core Guidelines: Rules for Concurrency and Parallelism

April 21, 2018

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C++11 is the first C++ standard that deals with concurrency. The basic building block for concurrency…

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C++ Core Guidelines: The Remaining Rules about Performance

April 13, 2018

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Today, I will write about the remaining ten rules of performance. Ten rules seem to be a lot, but only…

C++ Core Guidelines: More Rules about Performance

April 4, 2018

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In this post, I continue my journey through the rules to performance in the C++ Core Guidelines. …

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Cooperative Interruption of a Thread in C++20: CallbacksJuly 15, 2024 - 8:43 am
I introduced in my last post “Cooperative Interruption of a Thread in C++20” callbacks. Today, I dive deeper. First , here’s a short reminder. Reminder In my last post “Cooperative Interruption of a Thread in C++20“, I presented the following program. // invokeCallback.cpp #include <chrono> #include <iostream> #include <thread> #include <vector> using namespace::std::literals; auto func […]
Cooperative Interruption of a Thread in C++20July 1, 2024 - 10:12 am
A typical question in my C++ seminars is: Can a thread be killed? Before C++20, my answer is no. With C++20, you can ask a thread politely for its interruption.
Chrono: InputJune 24, 2024 - 9:36 am
You can also apply the format specifier for formatted input. This post is the eleventh in my detailed journey through the chrono extension in C++20. The chrono library supports formatted input in two ways. You can use the function std::chrono::from_stream or std::chrono::parse. Both functions require an input stream and parse the input into a time […]
Chrono I/O: Unformatted and FormattedJune 17, 2024 - 10:33 am
Chrono I/O consists of reading and writing chrono types. The various chrono types support unformatted writing and formatted one with the new formatting library. This post is the tenth in my detailed journey through the chrono extension in C++20: Output Most chrono types, such as time duration, time points, and calendar dates, support direct writing […]
Chrono I/OMay 20, 2024 - 10:09 am
Chrono I/O consists of reading and writing chrono types. The various chrono types support unformatted writing and formatted one with the new formatting library. This post is the ninth in my detailed journey through the chrono extension in C++20: Output Most chrono types, such as time duration, time points, and calendar dates, support direct writing […]
Time Zones: Online ClassesMay 13, 2024 - 9:39 am
Today, I will continue to present the functionality of the time zones of the C++20 chrono extension. This post is the eight in my detailed journey through the chrono extension in C++20: Various Time Zones for Online Classes The program onlineClass.cpp answers the following question: How late is it in given time zones when I […]