Exercise
Explore writing concurrent programs and measuring their performance using timers and locking methods. Implement a concurrent counter, sloppy counter, and hand-over-hand locked linked list. Evaluate performance across threads and locking strategies to understand how concurrency impacts data structures.
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In this exercise, you’ll gain some experience with writing concurrent code and measuring its performance. Learning to build code that performs well is a critical skill and thus gaining a little experience here with it is quite worthwhile.
You will have to attempt this exercise locally, however, feel free to discuss your insights on the Discuss thread.
Questions
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We’ll start by redoing the measurements within this chapter. Use the call
gettimeofday()to measure time within your program. How accurate is ...