Cristina Yenyxe wrote:My question is basically the subject. I've used the Threading API in Java in several projects and then another one for C++ was announced, and it looked really similar (also the ones in other languages). What are the most important differences between them? Do you make any parallelism in your book? Not that I consider it the most important thing, but it could make the API easier to understand for people in my situation.
One of the appendices has a comparison table which relates the C++0x concurrency facilities to others, including the Java Threading API. To a large extent the differences are just syntactic rather than semantic.
The most obvious differences are that a new
thread is started immediately when you pass the thread function to the
std::thread constructor, rather than waiting for you to call
Start(), and that you can pass any callable object or function to the
std::thread constructor rather than having to derive a new class from
Runnable.
One other noticable difference is that in Java you can use
synchronized on any object; in C++0x you must explicitly provide a mutex object for locking.
Thank you!