Multi-Threaded Programming with WIN32 [With *]

By Thuan Q. Pham

Covers Win32 multithreading techniques that make the Windows NT software faster and more responsive. This book explains how multithreading works, and the fundamentals of the Windows NT Thread... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130109126
• ISBN13: 9780130109125
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Clear, concise natural progression with good examples

This book is very easy to read and follows a natural progression from the problem of why multithreads are needed and how to go about solving the problem. Simple examples of a single reader and single writer thread are presented first followed by increasingly more complex examples of multiple readers and multiple writers with the changes clearly pointed out. I was able to skip around with ease and applied the concepts to my own application within hours. The chapters on monitors were well written - the first chapter in an abstract manner to illustrate the point followed by another chapter that had the actual guts of the code. The chapter on deadlock analysis was very useful in pointing out the issue of deadlock avoidance through the use of preemptive threads. This was important in my application where threads have to yield resources when their allotted cpu time was up.