1. Hello, world of concurrency in C++!

This chapter covers What is meant by concurrency and multithreading Why you might want to use concurrency and multithreading in your applications Some of the history of the support for concurrency in C++ What a simple multithreaded C++ program looks like

These are exciting times for C++ users. Thirteen years after the original C++ Standard was published in 1998, the C++ Standards Committee is giving the language and its supporting library a major overhaul. The new C++ Standard (referred to as C++11 or C++0x) was published in 2011 and brings with it a whole swathe of changes that will make working with C++ easier and more productive.