Passing Arguments to Threads
Explore how to pass arguments to threads in modern C++, focusing on the differences between passing by copy, move, or reference. Understand why using std::ref is essential for passing arguments by reference to threads, and how to avoid undefined behavior by managing argument lifetimes properly.
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A thread, like any arbitrary function, can get its arguments by copy, by move, or by reference. std::thread is a variadic template which means that it takes an arbitrary number of arguments.
In the case where your thread gets its data by reference, you ...