Duration

• 4 * 1/2 day or 2 * 1 day

Accompanying literature

• Each participant gets one of my digital or printed books.

Method

• Theory and praxis with many exercises. You get the source code and the solutions to the exercises.
• You need a computer with at least a C++11 compiler.

Objectives

• Learn the safe usage of multihreading in C++
• Get a basic knowledge of the memory model
• Peek into the future with C++20/23

Standard

• C++11/14/17 standard

Content

Multithreading

• Threads
• Shared Data
• Mutexes and Locks
• Thread-safe Initialisation
• Thread-Local Data
• Condition Variables
• Tasks (Promises and Futures)

The Memory Model

• The Contract
• Atomics
• The Synchronisation and Ordering Constraints
• Sequential Consistency
• Acquire-Release Semantic
• std::memory_order_consume
• Relaxed Semantic

Parallel Algorithms of the Standard Template Library (C++17)

• Execution Policies
• Algorithms
  • The New Algorithms

The Near Future: C++20

• std::jthread
• Atomic Smart Pointers
• Latches and Barriers
• Coroutines
• Semaphores

The Future: C++23

• Executors
• Extended Futures
• Transactional Memory
• Task Blocks

Conditions of participation:

The general terms and conditions are found in the GT&C.