"The Perils of Data Races" Article Online

Friday, 11 September 2009

My latest article, Avoiding the Perils of C++0x Data Races has been published at devx.com.

Race conditions are one of the biggest causes of problems in multithreaded code. This article takes a brief look at some of the ways in which race conditions can occur, with sample code that demonstrates the perils of data races.

A Data Race is a specific type of race condition, and occurs where multiple threads access the same non-atomic variable without synchronization, and at least one of those threads performs a write. The sample code in the article demonstrates how a data race can cause corrupt data, which can then cause additional problems in other code.

Posted by Anthony Williams
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