emember the red telephone box, once a familiar sight on the streets of London? That’s a good example of mutually exclusive access to a shared resource, although you probably didn’t
f writing software is hard, then writing applications that will take full advantage of the ever-more-prevalent multicore/multi-CPU hardware?without introducing subtle race conditions and consistency errors?is even harder. Numerous solutions have
arallel computing and concurrent programming are rapidly becoming mainstream topics for discussion in the corporate world. These are not new ideas; in fact they’ve been around for more than 30
ood old object-oriented programming is still alive and kicking. In many C++ frameworks and applications where inheritance and virtual functions thrive you often need to create a derived object whose
For authors, it’s a sad fact that when it comes to popularity, not all articles are created equal; some prove to be more popular than others. The truth is that
Conducting an interview via email can be very convenient. I can formulate my questions exactly the way I mean them (avoiding my propensity for rambling), and the interviewee has the
our years ago, I presented a pioneer proposal for adding lambda expressions to standards C++. The lambda proposal has since undergone significant revisions and enhancements. In their new form, C++0x
I’ve read a lot recently about the economy, including a number of prognostications about how the downturn will affect IT. But most predictions ignore some basic IT facts. A downturn
ntil not long ago, a standardized multithreading API for C++ was a pipe dream. Almost every operating system, compiler, and framework rolled their own threading libraries. These proprietary libraries were