The Mutex Club: Multithreading Demystified
TL;DR: That Mysterious Slowdown You spin up a multithreaded job—maybe crunching stats
TL;DR: That Mysterious Slowdown You spin up a multithreaded job—maybe crunching stats
Welcome to the Mutex Club: Where Memory Visibility Makes (Or Breaks) Your Threads Imagine
Why Your Threads Throw a Fit Picture a busy kitchen where chefs keep grabbing
Key Insights Race Conditions 101 Think of two hungry chefs racing for the last
Key Insights What Is Context Switching? Imagine a barista flipping between espresso shots and
Key Insights Happens-Before: Guaranteeing Order in the Wild Think of threads as chefs in
Ready for the truth about mutexes? Let’s slice through the jargon like rogue
Introduction Welcome to the ring where user threads and kernel threads duke it out
The CPU Kitchen: When Threads Become Culinary Staff Imagine your CPU as a bustling