Branches of execution?

[codaraxis]

I've worked my way through the CPlusPlus tutorial and am now looking to expand outward a bit. My current goal is to have multiple branches of execution (e.g. more than one function running at a time). Should I therefore look into hyperthreading next? So far, I've been handling this process using a round-based system whereby more complex processes are broken down to iterations that are sequentially called as part of a loop, essentially resulting in the entering and exiting of functions multiple times per loop cycle.. this method can't be the most reasonable way to approach this. Thanks in advance.

I doubt it's relevant, but after this, I'd like to start dabbling with either the Win32 API or SDL.

[Moschops]

Hyperthreading is an Intel technology for handling multiple threads. In programming terms, we just call them threads.

C++ 11 comes with thread support as standard, via

#include <thread>

This is a pretty good starting place: http://solarianprogrammer.com/2011/12/16/cpp-11-thread-tutorial/