Summary

In this chapter, we went over the basics of a multithreaded application in C++ using the native threading API. We looked at how to have multiple threads perform a task in parallel, and also explored how to properly use the random number API in the STL within a multithreaded application.

In the next chapter, we'll discuss how multithreading is implemented both in hardware and in operating systems. We'll see how this implementation differs per processor architecture and operating system, and how this affects our multithreaded application.