Synchronization with Visual C++ and the Windows API

Espen Harlinn

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Choosing the right synchronization mechanisms when working with threads, thread-pools, and I/O Completion ports to create high performance asynchronous servers in C++

This is an article about many of the synchronization mechanisms available to C++ developers creating high performance, scalable, software for the Windows platform. To set things in perspective, we start out by creating a simple I/O completion port based server, receiving 5GB/s sent by one hundred concurrent clients.

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Espen Harlinn

Architect Sea Surveillance AS

Norway

Chief Architect - Sea Surveillance AS.

Specializing in integrated operations and high performance computing solutions.

I’ve been fooling around with computers since the early eighties, I’ve even done work on CP/M and MP/M.

Wrote my first “real” program on a BBC micro model B based on a series in a magazine at that time. It was fun and I got hooked on this thing called programming ...

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High performance application server development
Model Driven Architecture and Code generators
Real-Time Distributed Solutions
C, C++, C#, Java, TSQL, PL/SQL, Delphi, ActionScript, Perl, Rexx
Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle RDBMS, IBM DB2, PostGreSQL
AMQP, Apache qpid, RabbitMQ, Microsoft Message Queuing, IBM WebSphereMQ, Oracle TuxidoMQ
Oracle WebLogic, IBM WebSphere
Corba, COM, DCE, WCF
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More information about what I do for a living can be found at: harlinn.com or LinkedIn

You can contact me at espen@harlinn.no

Synchronization with Visual C++ and the Windows API

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