Introduction to Threads

C++ has had a multithreading interface since C++11. This interface has all the basic building blocks for creating multithreaded programs: threads, synchronization primitives for shared data (e.g. mutexes and locks), thread-local data, synchronization mechanism for threads (e.g. condition variables), and tasks. Tasks are usually called promises, and they provide a higher level of abstraction than native threads. It is okay if we do not understand the terms discussed here, as all of them will be discussed in depth in the following lessons.