Anthony Williams

Anthony Williams is a UK-based developer, consultant, and trainer with over 20 years of experience in C++. He has been an active member of the BSI C++ Standards Panel since 2001, and is the author or coauthor of many of the C++ Standards Committee papers that led up to the inclusion of the thread library in the C++11 Standard. He continues to work on new facilities to enhance the C++ concurrency toolkit, both with standards proposals, and implementations of those facilities for the just::thread Pro extensions to the C++ thread library from Just Software Solutions Ltd. Anthony lives in the far west of Cornwall, England.

books by Anthony Williams

C++ Concurrency in Action
  • February 2012
  • ISBN 9781933988771
  • 528 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
  • available in Chinese, Japanese, Polish
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Without assuming you have a background in the subject, C++ Concurrency in Action gradually enables you to write robust and elegant multithreaded applications in C++11. You'll explore the threading memory model, the new multithreading support library, and basic thread launching and synchronization facilities. Along the way, you'll learn how to navigate the trickier bits of programming for concurrency.