Critical sections are the One True Tool for guaranteeing mutual exclusion on shared variables. Like most tools, these must be applied consistently, and with the intended meanings.

Describes lock-free data sharing, otherwise known as "wait-free data sharing" as an alternative to the use of locks.

Interprocess communication is an essential component of modern software engineering. Often, lock-free IPC is accomplished via special processor commands. This article propose a communication type that requires only atomic writing of processor word fro...

It isn't just languages that have poor support for thread local storage, but operating systems too

Writing lock-free code can confound anyone-even expert programmers, as Herb shows in this article.

Discusses the usage of the volatile keyword in multithreaded C++ programs.

Shows different ways of how to write a fast, internally synchronized queue, one that callers can use without any explicit external locking or other synchronization, and compares the performance.

Explains how to accurately analyze the real performance of parallel code and lists some basic considerations and common costs.

The Boost.Thread library, which enables the use of multiple threads of execution with shared data in portable C++ code, has undergone some major changes.

AOP training and tool support are key issues for future growth. Dr. Dobb's.