README.md

Fearless System Thread Concurrency

Please have Rust installed (via RustUp) and a working IDE/editor setup.

First Hour

• Introduction
• System Threads: Overview
• Create Your First Thread
• Spawning Threads with Parameters and Closures
• Returning Data from Threads
• Dividing Workloads
• The ThreadBuilder Pattern
• Let's take a break

Second Hour

• Scoped Threads for Easy Local Data Sharing
• Sharing Data with Atomics
• Sharing Data with Mutexes
• Read/Write Locks
• Deadlocks, Panics and Poisoning
• Sharing Data with Lock-Free Structures
• Parking Threads
• Let's take a break

Third Hour

• Sending Data Between Threads with Channels
• Channels and Ownership
• Sending Functions to Worker Threads
• Let's build a work queue with a thread pool
• Thread CPU/Core Affinity
• Thread Priority
• Let's take a break

Fourth Hour

• Making it Easy with Rayon
• Scopes and Pooled Threads with Rayon
• Wrap-Up & QA
• Next week... green threads and Tokio