For a long time now, researchers have been working on automating the process of breaking up otherwise single-threaded code to run on multiple processors by way of multiple threads. Results, although ...

Do you ever get the feeling there’s something not quite right about Swing threading? John Zukowski puts his finger on it in this article. While tracing Swing’s single-threaded event model from Java ...

I've been getting a fair number of questions about multi-threading the past couple of weeks. The reason is that Intel has been previewing its "Nehalem EX" Xeon processor in advance of Advanced Micro ...

Many hands make light work, or so they say. So do many cores, many threads and many data points when addressed by a single computing instruction. Parallel programming – writing code that breaks down ...

TL;DR: Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney reveals Unreal Engine 6 is 2-3 years away, promising major upgrades like enhanced multi-threaded performance and unified development across platforms. UE6 aims to ...

Learn the core concepts of thread synchronization used to build multi-threaded .NET applications that enforce thread safety and avoid deadlocks. The C# programming language has provided support for ...

Like what does it do/effect really? There are those double socket multicore xeon systems out there, but their single thread sucks. then theres threadripper which seems to crush both. All CPU bound ...

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