Designing a Zero-Cost Abstraction for Memory-Safe Threading
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2024
tredition (Verlag)
978-3-384-25314-9 (ISBN)
tredition (Verlag)
978-3-384-25314-9 (ISBN)
Multithreaded programming offers significant performance benefits by leveraging multiple cores or processors. However, it introduces complexity and potential pitfalls, particularly around memory safety. Designing abstractions that provide safe and efficient threading remains a challenge. This paper explores the concept of a zero-cost abstraction for memory-safe threading, discussing its properties, potential design approaches, and trade-offs.What is Zero-Cost Abstraction?In the context of programming languages, a zero-cost abstraction refers to a feature that provides a higher-level interface without incurring any performance overhead compared to manually implementing the functionality at a lower level. This ideal eliminates the trade-off between programmer convenience and performance, making safe practices the natural choice.Memory Safety in ThreadingMemory safety ensures that threads access memory locations correctly, preventing issues like data races, use-after-free, and dangling pointers. These issues can lead to program crashes, unexpected behavior, and security vulnerabilities.
This book explores the intersection of laser technology and atmospheric studies, focusing on spectroscopic techniques for analyzing atmospheric composition, remote sensing, and environmental monitoring. It highlights the potential of laser-based methods in advancing our understanding of atmospheric processes and addressing environmental challenges.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.6.2024 |
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Verlagsort | mh |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 142 g |
Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke |
Schlagworte | Data Races • Lightweight threads • Lock-free algorithms • Memory Safety • Message Passing • Semaphores • Static Analysis • Task Scheduling • Threading abstraction • Zero-cost abstraction |
ISBN-10 | 3-384-25314-0 / 3384253140 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-384-25314-9 / 9783384253149 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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