Part 8

Concurrency

Doing more than one thing at a time without corrupting your data.

• 8.1

  Threads

  Starting work in parallel, and joining it back.

  8 min
• 8.2

  Data races and mutexes

  The bug class that only appears in production, and how to exclude it.

  10 min
• 8.3

  Atomics and the memory model

  The guarantees the hardware and the standard actually give you.

  11 min
• 8.4

  Futures, promises, and tasks

  Getting results back from concurrent work.

  7 min
• 8.5

  Coroutines

  Functions that suspend and resume, and what the compiler generates.

  9 min