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Nobody likes it when his smart phone application freezes up entirely while it fetches information from the Internet. This is a sign that the app's developer didn't use one thread to retrieve the ...
Here's a first look at structured concurrency. Structured concurrency is a new way to use multithreading in Java. It allows developers to think about work in logical groups while taking advantage ...
Why you need to care about multithreading Multithreading is a key component of modern desktop processors. Back in the late ‘90s, CPUs had only one core. To get dual-core performance, you had to ...
Employing a hybrid of MPI across nodes in a cluster, multithreading with OpenMP* on each node, and vectorization of loops within each thread results in multiple performance gains. In fact, most ...
Major side-channel exploits demonstrated the feasibility of programs extracting data from a program in an adjacent thread in the same core. Here's how and why to protect your ThinkPad. https ...
Multithreading support for client-side Blazor WebAssembly apps is planned for .NET 8 in November 2023, but developers can try it out now for .NET apps thanks to experimental functionality in the brand ...
With I/O threading enabled, the new version of Redis can serve up to twice as many operations as before on a single instance, say creators Redis 6, the newest version of the in-memory database and ...
Guided by this logic, Python inventor Guido van Rossum architected all of Python’s multithreading capabilities around the fatally flawed assumption that computers of the future would have only a ...
A new multithreading architecture called MIPS MT ASE (multithreading architecture extensions) comes by way of MIPS Technologies. It provides coarse-grain and fine-grain multithreading support on a ...
Chrome and Firefox now both support multithreading, but they do it in different ways. In Chrome, each and every tab you open gets its own content process. Ten tabs, 10 processes. One hundred tabs ...