Introduction

What you’ll learn in this chapter

Concurrency and Parallelism are core aspects of any modern programming language. Before C++11 there was no standard support in the language for threading - you could use third - party libraries or System APIs. Modern C++ started to bring more and more necessary features: threads, atomics, locks, std::async and futures.

C++17 gives us a way to parallelise most of the standard library algorithms. With a powerful and yet straightforward abstraction layer, you can leverage more computing power ...