Tag: thread

4 posts

Jun 26, 2026 16 min read Intermediate

Kotlin Coroutines vs Threads: Cost, Dispatchers, Structured Concurrency and Cancellation

Comparison of Kotlin coroutines and OS threads: lightweight concurrency, memory overhead, scheduling, structured concurrency, Dispatchers.
Jun 20, 2026 8 min read Beginner

C++ sleep_for vs sleep_until: Drift, Clock Choice and Cancellable Waits

How std::this_thread::sleep_for and sleep_until really behave: oversleeping, fixed-rate loops without drift, steady vs system clock, and waits you can cancel.
Jun 19, 2026 20 min read Intermediate

thread_local in C++: Per-Thread Caches and RNGs, Initialization Order and Pitfalls

C++11 thread_local: per-thread storage, caches, RNGs, initialization, and patterns without shared mutex overhead.
Jun 6, 2026 22 min read Intermediate

C++20 std::jthread: Auto-Join, Cooperative Cancellation with stop_token, and Its Limits

C++20 std::jthread explained: why std::thread terminates without join, how jthread requests stop and joins in its destructor, how stop_token, stop_callback, and condition_variable_any make waits cancellable, and the cases where auto-join still hangs.