Where can I find a tutorial on multi-threading?

[xanatose]

Since the trend seems to be more CPUs per chip, I wanted to (finally) learn about multi-treading programming.

Does anyone knows a tutorial on this subject? If possible, but not required, OS independant.

Specifically, how does one makes a library multi-threading safe without killing its performance on single CPU machines. So it can be use on different tasks at the same time.

[u]

Simple calls to CreateThread, InitializeCriticalSection, EnterCriticalSection, LeaveCriticalSection.
But to get best performance, you must understand how the OS works, the thread-scheduler specifically. So, read "inside windows 2000".
Too many people don't know/understand these internals, and go for the wrong API for their own needs. (i.e CreateEvent/WaitSingleObject versus SwitchToThread versus mutexes, etc). For Win2k/XP, I've written an article on "Fast readers-writer lock", search it here - it might give some insight on how fast the OS does some things, and thus when which API are preferred.

[xanatose]

Thank you

[hutch--]

Ultrano,

Link Link !!!!!

[u]

Here's the article

http://www.masm32.com/board/index.php?topic=6777.0