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Published inDec 2020
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Björn Andrist
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Björn Andrist

Björn Andrist is a freelance software consultant currently focusing on audio applications. For more than 15 years, he has been working professionally with C++ in projects ranging from UNIX server applications to real-time audio applications on desktop and mobile. In the past, he has also taught courses in algorithms and data structures, concurrent programming, and programming methodologies. Björn holds a BS in computer engineering and an MS in computer science from KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
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Viktor Sehr

Viktor Sehr is the founder and main developer of the small game studio Toppluva AB. At Toppluva he develops a custom graphics engine which powers the open-world skiing game Grand Mountain Adventure. He has 13 years of professional experience using C++, with real-time graphics, audio, and architectural design as his focus areas. Through his career, he has developed medical visualization software at Mentice and Raysearch Laboratories as well as real-time audio applications at Propellerhead Software. Viktor holds an M.S. in media science from Linköping University.
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In this chapter, you've seen how to use C++ coroutines for writing asynchronous tasks. To be able to implement the infrastructure in the form of a Task type and a sync_wait() function, you needed to fully understand the concept of awaitable types and how they can be used to customize the behavior of coroutines in C++.

By using Boost.Asio, we could build a truly minimal but fully functional concurrent server application executing on a single thread while handling multiple client sessions.

Lastly, I briefly introduced a methodology called structured concurrency and gave some directions for where you can find more information about this topic.

In the next chapter, we will move on to explore parallel algorithms, which are a way to speed up concurrent programs by utilizing multiple cores.

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Published in: Dec 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781839216541

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Björn Andrist

Björn Andrist is a freelance software consultant currently focusing on audio applications. For more than 15 years, he has been working professionally with C++ in projects ranging from UNIX server applications to real-time audio applications on desktop and mobile. In the past, he has also taught courses in algorithms and data structures, concurrent programming, and programming methodologies. Björn holds a BS in computer engineering and an MS in computer science from KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
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Viktor Sehr

Viktor Sehr is the founder and main developer of the small game studio Toppluva AB. At Toppluva he develops a custom graphics engine which powers the open-world skiing game Grand Mountain Adventure. He has 13 years of professional experience using C++, with real-time graphics, audio, and architectural design as his focus areas. Through his career, he has developed medical visualization software at Mentice and Raysearch Laboratories as well as real-time audio applications at Propellerhead Software. Viktor holds an M.S. in media science from Linköping University.
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