Multithreaded Programming with Windows NT - Softcover

Pham, Thuan Q.; Garg, Pankaj K.

 
9780131206434: Multithreaded Programming with Windows NT

Synopsis

Two leading software engineers show you exactly how to make the most of Windows NT multithreading. Step by step, you'll learn the underlying concepts of multithreading-concepts that also apply in UNIX, 0S/2, and other multithreading environments. Then you'll learn how to use Windows NT implementation of multithreading, including Windows NT processes and threads, thread management, synchronization, scheduling, and priorities.
The authors present practical solutions for the traditional problems of multithreading, including resource sharing, deadlocks, and race conditions. You'll learn the most effective ways to introduce threads into existing applications, and how to use threads to build highly-efficient distributed applications. The authors compare and contrast several thread-package implementations and illustrate various models for multithreaded programming. Finally, the authors explain the concept and construction techniques of monitors - a useful abstraction for multithreaded programs.

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About the Author

Thuan Q. Pham is a technical staff member at Silicon Graphics, Inc.

From the Back Cover

Multithreaded programming can effectively improve efficiency and performance in an application program by introducing concurrency and parallelism. This book details techniques for designing and implementing multithreaded software applications in the Windows NT operating system. Covers the Windows NT thread interface, thread synchronizations, thread priorities, resource sharing, deadlock analysis, and thread-package architectures. For application developers who want to experiment with multithreaded programming.

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