Chapter 5. Parallelization and Threading Enhancements
Availability: Framework 4—Some Functionality in 3.5 with Parallel Extensions CTP
Until recently, CPU manufactures regularly released faster and faster processors. Speed increases, however, have all but ground to a halt due to various issues such as signal noise, power consumption, heat dissipation, and non-CPU bottlenecks.
No doubt these issues will be resolved in the future, but in the meantime manufacturers are instead concentrating on producing processors with multiple cores. Multicore processors can process sections of code in parallel, resulting in some calculations being performed more quickly and thus increasing application performance. To take full advantage of multicore machines, ...
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