Title: Ok to check out from library
Product review: There are essentially twelve chapters in the book. The first six and the POSIX specification at the end should not have been included, while the rest should have been written more concisely. In other words, the 500-page book could be boiled down to 150 pages worth reading.The book is also showing its age. First, the code style is not up to the final C++ standard (say, using such older header files as <algo.h> and <stddef.h> instead of <algorithm> and <cstddef>), nor up to the standard of moden C++ design (see code examples in "Accelarated C++," "Modern C++ Design," and "Efficient C++," etc.). Second, although the term "object-oriented" is part of the book title, the code presented is still a mixed bag of toy C code and C++ classes tied together in long-winded, procedural main() and thread() functions.In spite of the negatives, one may still learn a few tricks by reading chapters 6-12.
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