Manning Early Access Program Grokking Concurrency Version 3

Grokking Concurrency MEAP V03
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welcome
brief contents
Chapter 1: Introducing concurrency: why is it important?
	1.1 Introduction
	1.2 Why concurrency is important?
		1.2.1 We live in the concurrent world
		1.2.2 Increase system performance
		1.2.3 Solving complex and large problems
	1.3 Layers of concurrency
	1.4 What you’ll learn from this book
	1.5 Recap
Chapter 2: Sequential and parallel computing
	2.1 Review: What is a program?
	2.2 Sequential computations
		2.2.1 Pros and cons of sequential computing
	2.3 Parallel execution
	2.4 Parallel computing requirements
		2.4.1 Task independence
		2.4.2 Hardware support
	2.5 Parallel computing
	2.6 Amdahl's law
	2.7 Gustafson's law
	2.8 Concurrency vs parallelism
	2.9 Recap
Chapter 3: How computers work
	3.1 Processor
		3.1.1 Cache
		3.1.2 CPU execution cycle
	3.2 Runtime system
		3.2.1 Operating system
	3.3 Design of computer systems
	3.4 Multiple levels of parallel hardware
		3.4.1 Symmetric Multiprocessing architecture
	3.5 Taxonomy of parallel computers
		3.5.1 CPU vs GPU
	3.6 Recap
Chapter 4: Concurrency primitives
	4.1 Concurrent programming steps
	4.2 Processes
		4.2.1 Process internals
		4.2.2 Process states
		4.2.3 Multiple processes
	4.3 Threads
		4.3.1 Threads features
		4.3.2 Threads implementation
	4.4 Recap
Chapter 5: Inter-process communication
	5.1 Types of communication
		5.1.1 Shared memory IPC
		Advantages
		Disadvantages
		5.1.2 Message passing IPC
		Pipes
		Message Queues
		UDS sockets
	5.2 Thread pool pattern
	5.3 Basic execution framework
		5.3.1 Cracking passwords revisited
	5.4 Recap
Chapter 6: Multitasking
	6.1 CPU-bound and I/O-bound applications
		6.1.1 CPU-bound
		6.1.2 I/O-bound
		6.1.3 Identifying bottlenecks
	6.2 The need for multitasking
	6.3 Multitasking from a bird's eye view
	6.4 Preemptive multitasking
		6.4.1 Arcade machine with preemptive multitasking
		6.4.2 Context switching
	6.5 Multitasking environment
		6.5.1 Multitasking operating system
		6.5.2 Task isolation
		6.5.3 Task scheduling
	6.6 Recap