Lock-Free C++ Mastery (Paperback)

Paperback. Stop Pausing Your Threads. Master the Dark Arts of Lock-Free C++ and Achieve Extreme Multi-Core Scaling. As core counts push past 64 and 128, legacy synchronization mechanisms are failing. Relying on std:: mutex introduces catastrophic context switching, cache invalidation storms, and unpredictable latency spikes that can crash a high-frequency trading engine or throttle a game's framerate. Lock-Free C++ Mastery is the definitive engineering manual for breaking through the "Concurrency Wall" and building ultra-fast, wait-free architectures. Moving far beyond basic multithreading, this book dives straight into the silicon. You will learn to bypass the OS scheduler entirely, manipulating the C++ memory model and hardware caches to build lock-free queues, wait-free ring buffers, and concurrent hash maps that scale linearly under massive contention.Inside, you will discover: Hardware Realities: Master the MESI protocol, defeat false sharing, and mitigate NUMA latency penalties to keep your execution paths blisteringly fast.The C++ Memory Model: Stop guessing. Learn exactly when to use Sequential Consistency, Acquire-Release semantics, and the highly dangerous Relaxed memory ordering.Safe Memory Reclamation (SMR): Solve the dreaded ABA problem and safely reclaim memory using Epoch-Based Reclamation (EBR), RCU, and C++26 Hazard Pointers.Lock-Free Architectures: Step-by-step implementations for SPSC/MPMC Ring Buffers, Unbounded Michael-Scott Queues, Treiber Stacks, and Split-Ordered Hash Maps.The Wait-Free Holy Grail: Design fast-path/slow-path fallbacks specifically engineered for hard real-time constraints and P99.99 latency benchmarking in trading engines.Testing & Verification: Tame the state space explosion. Learn to flush out impossible-to-reproduce "Heisenbugs" using ThreadSanitizer (TSan) and formal Relacy model checking.THE IMPLEMENTATION VAULT (Appendix) Built for the performance architect in the trenches, the Appendix provides immediate, drop-in utility: The C++ Memory Ordering Cheat Sheet: Your definitive map for navigating std:: atomic barriers without sacrificing throughput.The Universal CAS Loop Template: A battle-tested blueprint for Compare-And-Swap operations.Troubleshooting the Top 10 Concurrency Heisenbugs: Direct solutions for the most devastating, silent failures in lock-free code.Don't let OS locks throttle your hardware. Master lock-free execution and build the fastest, most scalable concurrent systems in your industry. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…