Multithreaded Programming With Windows Nt [Paperback]

Thuan Q. Pham (Author), Pankaj K. Garg (Author)

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Publication Date: December 1995

Multithreaded programming can improve efficiency and performance in application programs by introducing concurrency and parallelism. This book informs application developers on the techniques for designing and implementing multi-threaded software applications in the Windows NT operating system.

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This book details techniques for designing and implementing multithreaded software applications in the Windows NT operating system.

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Multithreaded programming can effectively improve efficiency and performance in an application program by introducing concurrency and parallelism. This book details techniques for designing and implementing multithreaded software applications in the Windows NT operating system. Covers the Windows NT thread interface, thread synchronizations, thread priorities, resource sharing, deadlock analysis, and thread-package architectures. For application developers who want to experiment with multithreaded programming.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; Pap/Dis edition (December 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131206435
• ISBN-13: 978-0131206434
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,999,889 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fundamentally Flawed Examples, October 24, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Multithreaded Programming With Windows Nt (Paperback)

This book offers good solutions, overall. But it's advice is ocasionally flawed fatally. Within the first couple chapters, for example, the authors write all of their examples to call TerminateThread(), which is a fatal and unforgivable mistake that results in nothing more than unstability. Worse, throught the book, they code threads that use the C runtime libraries but start the threads with the CreateThread() API--that causes the runtime libraries to not correctly initialize or shutdown in all cases, and that results in memory leaks and unstability. While the authors clearly treat deadlocks and thread programming models, their implementations are still mortally flawed. A score of 10 for great abstract descriptions plus a score of 1 for terribly poor implementations and samples results in a score of five.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for both beginners and software professionals, October 27, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Multithreaded Programming With Windows Nt (Paperback)

This book took me from knowing nothing about thread programming to writing professional mulithreaded programs very quickly. If you are tasked to write multithreaded programs under Windows NT (like I was) this book will give you a flying start.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book on multithreading, August 11, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Multithreaded Programming With Windows Nt (Paperback)

A very well written book on multithreading. Though this book focuses on NT multthreading model, it will serve as a good reference for people working on UNIX as well. It is written in a very simple language which makes the reading very easy and interesting. Coming from UNIX background, I would have liked to have a more elaborate comparision of NT thread interface with UNIX (such as Solaris) one. But in no way this missing feature diminishes the value of this book. A must have!!