Compares Windows NT and Solaris on a symmetric multiprocessor machine.

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

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.

Find out what dangers race conditions in general and C++0x data races in particular pose to concurrent code, as well as the strategies for avoiding them.

Part of the Computer Science Bibliography Collection.

Breaking up is hard to do, but interleaving can be even subtler.

Bil Lewis's collection of frequently asked questions.

Frequently asked questions (by Bryan O'Sullivan).

To avoid problems with shared state working with multiple threads, Vinoski recommends a programming language like Erlang rather than C++ or Java.

This book provides an in-depth overview of underlying principles as well as practical techniques that can be used to design concurrent programs. (Greg Andrews)