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Multithreaded Programming with Pthreads (Paperback)

by Bil Lewis (Author), Daniel J. Berg (Author), Sun Microsystems Press (Author)
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  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall; 136th edition (24 Dec 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0136807291
  • ISBN-13: 978-0136807292
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 17.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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For advanced Computer Science programming courses covering operating systems.

The books aim is to give the programmer a solid, basic understanding of threads — what they are, how they work, why they work, why they are useful, and some of the programming issues surrounding their use. A reader should come away with a solid understanding of the fundamentals of multithreading, being able to write credible, modestly complex, threaded programs.



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Based on the best-selling Threads Primer, Multithreaded Programming with Pthreads gives you a solid understanding of Posix threads: what they are, how they work, when to use them, and how to optimize them.

It retains the clarity and humor of the Primer, but includes expanded comparisons to Win32 and OS/2 implementations. Code examples tested on all of the major UNIX platforms are featured along with detailed explanations of how and why they use threads.

In addition to scheduling, synchronization, signal handling, etc., special emphasis is placed on:

  • Cancellation: What does it mean to do bounded-time cancellation? What are the numerous details the programmer must deal with, and how do you avoid using cancellation at all?
  • Error expeditions: What do they all mean and what should you do about them?
  • Performance: How fast can a program run, and what are the limiting factors? Theoretical issues are considered and a case study for NFS is presented.
  • Hardware: A number of machine designs are examined (Sun, SGI, and DEC), focusing on issues of performance, synchronization instructions, bus design, and invalidation techniques.
  • Languages: The use of threads in other languages (Lisp, Eiffel, Smalltalk, etc.) is examined, with special emphasis on C++ and Java.
  • References: Pointers to the newsgroup, FAQs, web pages, code examples, other books, freeware tools, and commercial products are included.
  • More than anything else this is a practical book-it tells you what can and cannot be done with threads and why. In short, everything you need to know to build faster, smarter, multithreaded applications.



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3.0 out of 5 stars This book knocks the P out of Pthreads..., 17 Mar 1999
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I primarily ordered this book to learn POSIX threading techniques for Unix. Imagine my surprise when the book delved again and again into excessive detail on Win32 and OS/2 implementations of threads.

The book also spent every other paragraph covering problematic features of threads. If I were going to write a handbook for first time handgun owners, I wouldn't spend half the book explaining how you could take a live round, put it in the chamber, pull back the trigger, put the barrell in your mouth, and gently squeeze the trigger, oh by the way "Don't do that!" I would like to have seen a simple explanation of how to properly use threads for several different cases, and let natural selection determine if I was stupid enough to try some of the extreme cases that the book covers in detail.

Perhaps if the Win32, OS/2, and problematic features of threads had been separated out into late chapters, the book would have been readable. As the book is written, I found it hard to maintain a continuous stream of thought with the authors constantly bleating, Touret-like, "You can do this. BUT DON'T DO THAT! And here's how you can do the same thing for Win32. BUT DON'T DO THAT!" The confusing graphic illustrations and lack of substantial code examples concurrent with the topic at hand did not serve to make my reading any easier.

I also did not appreciate the authors' flippant dismissal of real time programming. To paraphrase the book, "We don't know real time, so tough cookie."

Overall, the book was a decent threads primer with good information scattered throughout.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very good book on Pthreads, 4 Jan 1999
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This book has all of the information from the "Threads Primer" book and more. It covers the topic very well and if this was the only book you read you'd be fine. I like the Butenhof threads book just a bit better because the programming examples there were much better than the small code fragments presented in this book.
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