Thread API

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This is the page is about the thread support in C++ 11. For other API's and languages look at the sub pages (Thread API Windows).

Thread support library

std::thread

The class represents a single thread of execution.

- join : waits for a thread to finish its execution
- detach : Make the thread execute independently from the thread handle.
- get_id : Get the id of the thread
- native_handle : Get the native handle of the thread.
- hardware_concurrency : Return number of concurrent threads supported

std::this_thread

Namespace functions related to the current running thread.

- std::thread::id get_id() : Return a id for the current thread.
- yield(): Hint that the thread has nothing more to do right now and can be put to sleep.

std::mutex

Limit access to a shared resources.

- lock - Locks mutex, blocks if mutex is not available.
- try_lock - Try to lock the mutex, returns false if mutex not available.
- unlock - Unlocks the mutex

Atomic operations library

std::atomic

std::memory_order

Reference

C++11 threads, affinity and hyperthreading - 2016