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Abstract
One of the goals of the new C++11 Standard was to provide support for concurrency, in particular for thread-based concurrency. But threads don’t scale very well. Do C++ tasks, which are created using std::async, offer a scalable solution? Can they implement task-based parallelism?
Bio
Bartosz Milewski has a Ph.D. in Quantum Physics and many years of experience as a C++ programmer. He worked at Microsoft on the Context Index—a search engine before the Internet—still an active part of Windows 7. He designed the first distributed version control system, Code Co-op (before BitKeeper and Git). Bartosz took part in the design of the D language. His main topics of interest are concurrent and distributed computing. He works at Corensic, a Seattle startup that makes a concurrency bug detector, Jinx. He regularly publishes a blog at http://BartoszMilewski.wordpress.com and a series of C++11 Concurrency tutorials.
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