Hello,world of concurrency C++, in This chapter covers What is meant by concurrency and multithreading Why you might want to use concurrency and multithreading in your applications Some of the history of the support for concurrency in C++ What a simple multithreaded C++program looks like These are exciting times for C++users.Thirteen years after the original C++Stan- dard was published in 1998,the C++Standards Committee is giving the language and its supporting library a major overhaul.The new C++Standard(referred to as C++11 or C++0x)was published in 2011 and brings with it a whole swathe of changes that will make working with C++easier and more productive. One of the most significant new features in the C++11 Standard is the support of multithreaded programs.For the first time,the C++Standard will acknowledge the existence of multithreaded applications in the language and provide components in the library for writing multithreaded applications.This will make it possible to write 11 Hello, world of concurrency in C++! These are exciting times for C++ users. Thirteen years after the original C++ Stan￾dard was published in 1998, the C++ Standards Committee is giving the language and its supporting library a major overhaul. The new C++ Standard (referred to as C++11 or C++0x) was published in 2011 and brings with it a whole swathe of changes that will make working with C++ easier and more productive. One of the most significant new features in the C++11 Standard is the support of multithreaded programs. For the first time, the C++ Standard will acknowledge the existence of multithreaded applications in the language and provide components in the library for writing multithreaded applications. This will make it possible to write This chapter covers ■ What is meant by concurrency and multithreading ■ Why you might want to use concurrency and multithreading in your applications ■ Some of the history of the support for concurrency in C++ ■ What a simple multithreaded C++ program looks like