5.9. Danny Shih
I talked to Danny Shih (program manager on parallel extensions for the .NET team) about his thoughts on the parallel extensions:
The underlying architecture of the Task Scheduler changed during development to use the thread pool; can you say a bit more about this decision?
Our managed scheduler (on which TPL was originally built) and the ThreadPool basically served the same purpose, and in Dev10, the two teams were working on different enhancements. The ThreadPool team was working on things like hill-climbing (an algorithm to determine and adjust to the optimal number of threads for a given workload), and we had added things like work-stealing queues to our managed scheduler. So to avoid duplicating code and to take advantage ...
Get Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010 now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
