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Pthreads will always have special place in my heart. It was my first serious introduction to the parallelism concepts.
by zerof1l 6y ago
Pthreads will always have special place in my heart. It was my first serious introduction to the parallelism concepts.
- senderista 6y agoDitto, via David Butenhof's excellent book _Programming with Posix Threads_. I didn't know what a mutex or condition variable was before I read that book.
- gautamdivgi 6y agoI still have that book on my shelf.
- johnisgood 6y agoWoah, it is that old! Been some time. Now I feel old.
- jjav 6y agoLives on my prime shelf space, along with TAOCP and the Stevens books.
- cylde_frog 6y agoI was going to comment the exact same thing. I have fond memories of learning about parallelism in university and using pThreads. It was such a mind-blowing and novel thing at the time when all I had been exposed to was sequential single threaded programming.