Very lightweight stackless threads; give linear code execution for event-driven systems, designed to use little memory; library is pure C, no platform-specific Assembly; usable with or without OS. Open source, BSD-type license.

Describes some key principles that will help mastering the "black art" of writing multithreaded code.

Sharing requires waiting and overhead, and is a natural enemy of scalability. This article focuses on one important case, namely mutable (writable) shared objects in memory, which are an inherent bottleneck to scalability on multicore systems.

Focuses on the implications of concurrency for software and its consequences for both programming languages and programmers. (Herb Sutter and James Larus)

Small application library for writing fast, highly scalable Internet programs on Unix-like platforms. Open source, MPL or GPL.

Comparing Solaris, Linux, and Windows NT threads.

Multi- and many-core chips are entering the mainstream — and one of the first software development authorities to take note was C++ expert Herb Sutter. Thanks to his practical insights, a new generation may grok concurrency sooner than previously thou...

What does the future hold for concurrency? What will happen to the tools and techniques around concurrent programming? In part two of our series, concurrency guru Herb Sutter talks about these issues and what developers need to be reading to understan...

The biggest sea change in software development since the OO revolution is knocking at the door, and its name is Concurrency.

Explains that deadlock can happen whenever there is a blocking (or waiting) cycle among concurrent tasks.