Understanding Threading

[justin2021]

I'm having a really hard to trying to understand threading. It seems that all the sites I've been to trying to comprehend it, do it all differently. Is there any 1 easy, normal way to do threading? Maybe there's some things I should read up on before I get into it? I really want to understand because I know it's an important feature that I will have to use eventually.

[laitinen]

Maybe this article may help you: Simple Thread: Part 1 (http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/misc/misc/threadsprocesses/article.php/c14105/)

As of today, part 2 is not "released" yet, but I am sure you will be busy with part 1 until part 2 is available.

Apart from this article, Arjay has written at least two other articles on threading. You will find them if you do a search here on CodeGuru.

Also, you may want to have a look at the FAQ section: FAQ: MFC Threads (http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=350757#mfc_thread) and FAQ: Windows SDK Threads (http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=350759#sdk_thread)

Hope you find this post useful!

Laitinen

[Marc G]

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[valikac]

One important reason behind multithreading is efficiency. In Windows (Linux, etc.), a multithreaded software application allows context-switch for multiple threads. Each thread would manage a particular task. It gets more complicated, but for now you need to understand the idea of doing tasks simultaneously. There is significant increase in performance on multi-core technology and of course multiple processors.

valikac