Acknowledgments

I will start by saying a big “Thank you” to my wife, Kim, for all the love and support she has given me while writing this book. It has occupied a significant part of my spare time for the last four years, and without her patience, support, and understanding, I couldn’t have managed it.

Second, I would like to thank the team at Manning who have made this book possible: Marjan Bace, publisher; Michael Stephens, associate publisher; Cynthia Kane, my development editor; Karen Tegtmeyer, review editor; Linda Recktenwald, my copy-editor; Katie Tennant, my proofreader; and Mary Piergies, the production manager. Without their efforts you would not be reading this book right now.

I would also like to thank the other members of the C++ Standards Committee who wrote committee papers on the multithreading facilities: Andrei Alexandrescu, Pete Becker, Bob Blainer, Hans Boehm, Beman Dawes, Lawrence Crowl, Peter Dimov, Jeff Garland, Kevlin Henney, Howard Hinnant, Ben Hutchings, Jan Kristofferson, Doug Lea, Paul McKenney, Nick McLaren, Clark Nelson, Bill Pugh, Raul Silvera, Herb Sutter, Detlef Vollmann, and Michael Wong, plus all those who commented on the papers, discussed them at the committee meetings, and otherwise helped shaped the multithreading and concurrency support in C++11.

Finally, I would like to thank the following people, whose suggestions have greatly improved this book: Dr. Jamie Allsop, Peter Dimov, Howard Hinnant, Rick Molloy, Jonathan Wakely, and Dr. Russel Winder, with special thanks to Russel for his detailed reviews and to Jonathan who, as technical proofreader, painstakingly checked all the content for outright errors in the final manuscript during production. (Any remaining mistakes are of course all mine.) In addition I’d like to thank my panel of reviewers: Ryan Stephens, Neil Horlock, John Taylor Jr., Ezra Jivan, Joshua Heyer, Keith S. Kim, Michele Galli, Mike Tian-Jian Jiang, David Strong, Roger Orr, Wagner Rick, Mike Buksas, and Bas Vodde. Also, thanks to the readers of the MEAP edition who took the time to point out errors or highlight areas that needed clarifying.