Reguera-Salgado Javier, Rufes Juan Antonio. Asynchronous Programming with C++: Build blazing-fast software with multithreading and asynchronous programming for ultimate efficiency

Packt Publishing, 2024. — 424 p.Key Features:
Learn how to use modern C++ features, including futures, promises, async, and coroutines to build asynchronous solutions
Develop cross-platform network and low-level I/O projects with Boost.Asio
Master optimization techniques by understanding how software adapts to machine hardwareBook Description:
As hardware advancements continue to accelerate, bringing greater memory capacity and more CPU cores, software must evolve to adapt to efficiently use all available resources and reduce idle CPU cycles. In this book, two seasoned software engineers with about five decades of combined experience will teach you how to implement concurrent and asynchronous solutions in C++.
You’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of parallel programming paradigms—covering concurrent, asynchronous, parallel, multithreading, reactive, and event-driven programming, as well as dataflows—and see how threads, processes, and services are related. Moving into the heart of concurrency, the authors will guide you in creating and managing threads and exploring C++’s thread-safety mechanisms, including mutual exclusion, atomic operations, semaphores, condition variables, latches, and barriers. With this solid foundation, you’ll focus on pure asynchronous programming, discovering futures, promises, the async function, and coroutines. The book takes you step by step through using Boost.Asio and Boost.Cobalt to develop network and low-level I/O solutions, proven performance and optimization techniques, and testing and debugging asynchronous software.
By the end of this C++ book, you’ll be able to implement high-performance software using modern asynchronous C++ techniques.What you will learn:
Explore the different parallel paradigms and know when to apply them
Acquire deep knowledge of thread management and safety mechanisms
Understand asynchronous programming in C++, including coroutines
Leverage network asynchronous programming by using Boost.Asio and Boost.Cobalt
Add proven performance and optimization techniques to your toolbox
Find out how to test and debug asynchronous softwareWho this book is for:
This book is for developers who have some experience using C++, regardless of their professional field. If you want to improve your C++ skills and learn how to develop high-performance software using the latest modern C++ features, this book is for you.Table of Contents:
Parallel Programming Paradigms
Processes, Threads, and Services
How to Create and Manage Threads in C++
Thread Synchronization with Locks
Atomic Operations
Promises and Futures
The Async Function
Asynchronous Programming Using Coroutines
Asynchronous Programming Using Boost.Asio
Coroutines with Boost.Cobalt
Logging and Debugging Asynchronous Software
Sanitizing and Testing Asynchronous Software
Improving Asynchronous Software Performance