You are strongly encouraged to read the following books for in-depth understanding of threading. Each book discusses general concepts of parallel programming by explaining a particular programming technology:
For information on Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB): Reinders, James. Intel Threading Building Blocks: Outfitting C++ for Multi-core Processor Parallelism. O'Reilly, July 2007
For information on OpenMP technology: Chapman, Barbara, Gabriele Jost, Ruud van der Pas, and David J. Kuck (foreword). Using OpenMP: Portable Shared Memory Parallel Programming. MIT Press, October 2007
For information on Microsoft Win32 Threading (for Windows users): Akhter, Shameem, and Jason Roberts. Multi-Core Programming: Increasing Performance through Software Multithreading, Intel Press, April 2006
Intel does not endorse these books or recommend them over other books on the same subjects.
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For information about the C++ standards, visit http://www.isocpp.org/.
For information about the C standards, visit http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/.
For information about the OpenMP standards, visit http://www.openmp.org/