C# Programming Cookbook

Chapter 7. High Performance Programming Using Parallel and Multithreading in C#

This chapter takes a look at improving your code's performance using multithreading and parallel programming. In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Creating and aborting a low-priority background thread
• Increasing maximum thread pool size
• Creating multiple threads
• Locking one thread until the contended resources are available
• Invoking parallel calls to methods using Parallel.Invoke
• Using a parallel foreach loop to run multiple threads
• Cancelling a parallel foreach loop
• Catching errors in parallel foreach loops
• Debugging multiple threads

Introduction

If you can find a single-core CPU in a computer today, it will probably mean that you are standing in a museum. ...