You use threads? You should know this.

Top 20 C++ multithreading mistakes and how to avoid them

by Deb Haldar

From the article:

Threading is one of the most complicated things to get right in programming, especially in C++. I've made a number of mistakes myself over the years. Most of these mistakes were  luckily caught in code review and testing ; however, some arcane ones did slip through and make it into production code and we had to patch live systems, which is always expensive.

In this article, I've tried to catalog all the mistakes I know of, with potential solutions. If you know any more pitfalls, or have alternative suggestions for some of the mistakes – please leave a comment below and I'll factor them into the article.