multithreading

Multithreading

Concurrency, threading, and synchronization problems.

Key Concepts Covered

• Thread creation and management
• Mutex and locks
• Condition variables
• Race conditions
• Deadlock prevention
• Thread synchronization
• Producer-consumer problem
• Read-write locks

Tips

• Always protect shared data with mutexes
• Use RAII (lock_guard, unique_lock) for exception safety
• Understand the difference between mutex, semaphore, and condition variable
• Watch out for deadlocks—acquire locks in consistent order
• atomic for simple lock-free operations