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Effective modern C++ live! : Scott Meyers on void futures /
"What's the best way for one thread to notify another that an event has taken place? The traditional approach is to use a condition variable, but that requires a mutex, and for simple event communication, that seems like overkill: no data requires synchronized access. An alternative is to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Video |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
O'Reilly Media,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
| Sumario: | "What's the best way for one thread to notify another that an event has taken place? The traditional approach is to use a condition variable, but that requires a mutex, and for simple event communication, that seems like overkill: no data requires synchronized access. An alternative is to use a shared flag, but that requires polling on the part of the thread waiting for notification. As of C++ 11, an interesting new option is the use of a void future. Like the approach based on condition variables, the task waiting for notification truly blocks--no polling is required. Like the approach based on a shared flag, there's no need for a mutex. The approach even makes it possible for the notifying thread to throw an exception that the waiting-to-be-notified thread can catch. However, a design based on void futures has costs and is constrained by restrictions that developers must keep in mind when choosing among these event-communication strategies. In this webcast, Scott Meyers covers the pros and cons of void futures as a mechanism for event communication among threads. It's based on information in chapter 7 ("The Concurrency API") of his best-selling new book, Effective Modern C++."--Resource description page. |
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| Notas: | Title from title screen (Safari, viewed July 8, 2015). Date of publication taken from slide 2 (Safari, viewed July 8, 2015). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (1 streaming video file (49 min., 42 sec.)) : digital, sound, color. |