Asynchronous Programming with C++

Leveraging Modern C++ for Scalable and High-Performance Software Development

Javier Reguera-Salgado, Juan Antonio Rufes

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781835884256
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Parallel Programming
• Index: Computer Science

Explore C++20 and C++23 features for efficient concurrent programming. Learn how to manage tasks, futures, and coroutines to write responsive and scalable C++ code. Enhance your applications with better control and execution

Key Features

• Learn how to use modern C++ features, including futures, promises, async, and coroutines to build asynchronous solutions
• Develop cross-platform network and low-level I/O projects with Boost.Asio
• Master optimization techniques by understanding how software adapts to machine hardware
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

As hardware continues to evolve with greater memory capacity and multi-core processors, software must keep pace to efficiently utilize available resources and minimize idle CPU cycles. In this book, you will explore a wide range of parallel programming paradigms, including concurrent, parallel, multithreading, reactive, and event-driven programming, as well as dataflows. It clarifies the relationships between threads, processes, and services while guiding you through thread creation and management. You'll gain hands-on experience with C++'s thread-safety mechanisms, such as mutual exclusion, atomic operations, semaphores, condition variables, latches, and barriers. Unlike other books, it offers an in-depth approach to building and implementing asynchronous applications in C++. You'll master core concepts like futures, promises, async functions, and coroutines, alongside practical applications using third-party libraries. Step by step, you'll leverage Boost.Asio and Boost.Cobalt to develop network and low-level I/O solutions while learning proven performance optimization techniques, testing strategies, and debugging methods. By the end of this book, you'll be equipped to develop high-performance applications using C++20 and C++23's cutting-edge asynchronous programming techniques

What you will learn

• Explore the different parallel paradigms and know when to apply them
• Acquire deep knowledge of thread management and safety mechanisms
• Understand asynchronous programming in C++, including coroutines
• Leverage network asynchronous programming by using Boost.Asio and Boost.Cobalt
• Add proven performance and optimization techniques to your toolbox
• Find out how to test and debug asynchronous software

Who this book is for

This book is for software engineers, developers and system programmers with some prior experience of C++ coding principles and familiar with networking, hardware and Linux systems. If you want to improve your C++ skills and learn to develop high-performance software using the latest modern C++ features, this book is for you. It will teach you how and when to use the latest C++ features to develop asynchronous solutions, to test and debug multithreaded software. By the end of the book, you will be well-equipped to implement high-performance software by using the most modern C++ techniques.

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Table of contents

• Asynchronous Programming with C++
• Contributors
• About the reviewer
• Preface
• Part 1:Foundations of Parallel Programming and Process Management
• 1
• 2
• Part 2: Advanced Thread Management and Synchronization Techniques
• 3
• 4
• 5
• Part 3: Asynchronous Programming with Promises, Futures, and Coroutines
• 6
• 7
• 8
• Part 4: Advanced Asynchronous Programming with Boost Libraries
• 9
• 10
• Part 5: Debugging, Testing, and Performance Optimization in Asynchronous Programming
• 11
• 12
• 13
• Index
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