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CS111 Section 4: Multithreading

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Clone the section starter code by using the command below. This command creates a section4 directory containing the project files. Next, pull up the online section checkoff and have it open in a browser so you can jot things down as you go. Multithreading is a powerful tool for parallelizing tasks, particularly tasks that share data. In this section problem, we'll get practice with making a non-multithreaded program multithreaded to speed up its performance, and eliminate any race conditions while doing so. We've provided a program news-aggregator.cc that is fully implemented; it downloads news articles (slowly, one after the other) from across the web using RSS Feeds, and then lets the user search for keywords in them. Try out the program now! To run the program, you must specify a file with the list of RSS feeds to download articles from. (A single RSS feed is like a feed of recent articles, and news sources maintain these feeds publicly). Run make to compile it, and then run ./news-

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