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hello everyone,
i want to use multithreading in c++,i have no previous experience of
implementing multithreading but from my operating system concepts i
know few concepts of multithreading .
can anyone please guide me how and were to begin from.
all help is apprecitated.
thank you
mohan gupta

wrote:
> i want to use multithreading in c++,i have no previous experience of
> implementing multithreading but from my operating system concepts i
> know few concepts of multithreading .
> can anyone please guide me how and were to begin from.

Begin with a good book. I recall that "Java Thread Programming" by
Paul Hyde gave me the needed push (never mind that it's for Java,
the principles are the same). I am sure that nowadays you can find
many a book on multithreading. Ask in 'comp.programming.threads'.

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> hello everyone,
> i want to use multithreading in c++,i have no previous experience of
> implementing multithreading but from my operating system concepts i
> know few concepts of multithreading .
> can anyone please guide me how and were to begin from.
> all help is apprecitated.
> thank you
> mohan gupta

The book "Cross-Platform Development in C++" by Syd Logan has a section on
threads, where Win32 threads, pthreads and NSPR threads are introduced.

wrote:
> i want to use multithreading in c++,i have no previous experience of
> implementing multithreading but from my operating system concepts i
> know few concepts of multithreading .
> can anyone please guide me how and were to begin from.
> all help is apprecitated.

http://bisqwit.iki.fi/story/howto/openmp/

wrote:
> hello everyone,
> i want to use multithreading in c++,i have no previous experience of
> implementing multithreading but from my operating system concepts i
> know few concepts of multithreading .
> can anyone please guide me how and were to begin from.
> all help is apprecitated.
> thank you
> mohan gupta

Multithreading concepts can get very involved. Probably best to start
with a good book.

There are good cross platform C++ threading libraries though so try not
to use OS specific threading constructs, it will make your life much easier.

On Mar 26, 8:28 pm, "Victor Bazarov" <v.Abaza...@comAcast.net> wrote:
> mohangupt...@gmail.com wrote:
> > i want to use multithreading in c++,i have no previous experience of
> > implementing multithreading but from my operating system concepts i
> > know few concepts of multithreading .
> > can anyone please guide me how and were to begin from.

> Begin with a good book. I recall that "Java Thread
> Programming" by Paul Hyde gave me the needed push (never mind
> that it's for Java, the principles are the same). I am sure
> that nowadays you can find many a book on multithreading. Ask
> in 'comp.programming.threads'.

Along the same lines, the Butendorf is an excellent introductory
text: even though it is for C and Posix, almost everything in it
holds for C++, and an awful lot holds for Windows as well.
(Obviously, not the API names, but all of the considerations as
to when you need to lock, etc.)

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On Mar 27, 6:24*am, mohangupt...@gmail.com wrote:
> hello everyone,
> i want to use multithreading in c++,i have no previous experience of
> implementing multithreading but from my operating system concepts i
> know few concepts of multithreading .
> can anyone please guide me how and were to begin from.
> all help is apprecitated.
> thank you
> mohan gupta

Hi Mohan,

As long as you know the concept of multithreading, then I would say
you are ready to write multithreading codes. Multithreading codes are
not that difficult as people think. Multithreading programming is, in
my opinion, a great fun to do allowing you to taste a bit of
programming.

However, there are a number of things you should know before you
start. First of all, when C++ was born, multithreading wasn't really
expected to be happened in programming world. In other words,
Multithreading is not supposed to be used in C++ world. BUT! don't
take this serisouly there are so many ways that you can deal with C++
multithreading programming. Second of all, according to some article(I
can't remember which one was...), when you design a multithreading
module, you should be extra careful about what you are really trying
to do. BUT! still just do fail few times and you will learn!!! so
don't give up =)

If you have bit of knowledge about algorithms, O-O concept and generic
programming, then I recommend you to look up a open source library C++
BOOST. Boost allows you to create multithreaded application so easily
and safely.

regards,
Alex D. B. Kim

<> wrote in message
> hello everyone,
> i want to use multithreading in c++,i have no previous experience of
> implementing multithreading but from my operating system concepts i
> know few concepts of multithreading .
> can anyone please guide me how and were to begin from.
> all help is apprecitated.
> thank you
> mohan gupta

Multithreading has in my opinion two ways of applying C++ virtual functions:
(1) the thread caller function (e.g. in win32):
DWORD CALLBACK thread_call( void * arg )
{ base_thread * p = (base_thread *)arg;
( *p )();
}
where class base_thread has a pure virtual operator()():
virtual operator()() = 0;
and derive the different thread call classes from base_thread,
implementing different operator()(),
(2) the multi-threading class:
class multi_thread
{ base_thread * * the_threads;
public:
multi_thread( unsigned int );
~multi_thread();
void set_thread( unsigned int, base_thread * );
virtual void start_threads() = 0;
virtual void wait_threads() = 0;
virtual void close_threads() = 0;
}
multi_thread::multi_thread( unsigned int n )
{ the_threads = new base_thread * [ n ];
} etc.
and derive the different win32/pthread etc. implementations.
This way C++ runtime polymorphism is set to work in multithreading.
Maarten.

On Mar 27, 9:50 am, James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 26, 8:28 pm, "Victor Bazarov" <v.Abaza...@comAcast.net> wrote:
>
> > mohangupt...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > i want to use multithreading in c++,i have no previous experience of
> > > implementing multithreading but from my operating system concepts i
> > > know few concepts of multithreading .
> > > can anyone please guide me how and were to begin from.
> > Begin with a good book. I recall that "Java Thread
> > Programming" by Paul Hyde gave me the needed push (never mind
> > that it's for Java, the principles are the same). I am sure
> > that nowadays you can find many a book on multithreading. Ask
> > in 'comp.programming.threads'.
>
> Along the same lines, the Butendorf is an excellent introductory
> text: even though it is for C and Posix, almost everything in it
> holds for C++, and an awful lot holds for Windows as well.
> (Obviously, not the API names, but all of the considerations as
> to when you need to lock, etc.)
>
> --
> James Kanze (GABI Software) email:james.ka...@gmail.com
> Conseils en informatique orientée objet/
> Beratung in objektorientierter Datenverarbeitung
> 9 place Sémard, 78210 St.-Cyr-l'École, France, +33 (0)1 30 23 00 34

Just to clarify, I think you meant _Butenhof_ book 'Programming with
POSIX threads'.

Googling 'Butendorf thread' returns nothing

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On Mar 27, 11:49 pm, gpderetta <gpdere...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 27, 9:50 am, James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mar 26, 8:28 pm, "Victor Bazarov" <v.Abaza...@comAcast.net> wrote:

> > > mohangupt...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > > i want to use multithreading in c++,i have no previous experience of
> > > > implementing multithreading but from my operating system concepts i
> > > > know few concepts of multithreading .
> > > > can anyone please guide me how and were to begin from.
> > > Begin with a good book. I recall that "Java Thread
> > > Programming" by Paul Hyde gave me the needed push (never mind
> > > that it's for Java, the principles are the same). I am sure
> > > that nowadays you can find many a book on multithreading. Ask
> > > in 'comp.programming.threads'.

> > Along the same lines, the Butendorf is an excellent introductory
> > text: even though it is for C and Posix, almost everything in it
> > holds for C++, and an awful lot holds for Windows as well.
> > (Obviously, not the API names, but all of the considerations as
> > to when you need to lock, etc.)

> Just to clarify, I think you meant _Butenhof_ book
> 'Programming with POSIX threads'.

Yes. That's what comes of typing too quickly.

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