The Task Parallel Library
.NET Framework 4 introduces the Task Parallel Library (TPL) as the new way to go about writing parallel programs. Key benefits of the TPL include the following:
• Efficient utilization of the cores available in the machine
• Intuitive programming model, leveraging lambda expressions and generics
• Support for task-oriented parallelism based on the notion of Task<T>
• Data-oriented parallelism with parallel iteration and PLINQ queries
• Composition of asynchronous computations
So you might wonder why we bothered talking about classic threading in Chapter 29 at all, if the TPL is all you need. There are a couple of answers to this question. First, it’s good to know about the primitives that underpin higher levels of ...
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