Chapter 45. Parallel Programming
Modern computers ship with multi-core architectures, meaning that they have more than one processor. The simplest home computer has at least dual-core architecture, so we’re sure you have a machine with multiple processors, too. Generally managed applications do their work using only one processor. This makes things easier, but with this approach you do not unleash all system resources. The reason is that all elaborations rely on a single processor that is overcharged and will take more time. Having instead the possibility of scaling the application execution ...
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