Threading Archive

  • Dustin Metzgar recently posted an entry centered around understanding how ASP .NET and WCF work in order to avoid unnecessarily blocking threads.  He used a couple of different tools to...

    Request threading in ASP .NET and WCF

    Dustin Metzgar recently posted an entry centered around understanding how ASP .NET and WCF work in order to avoid unnecessarily blocking threads.  He used a couple of different tools to...

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  • Herb’s last appearance on C9 was a relatively short chat with me about C++0x. You wanted more questions asked and some of you thought I was just too soft on Herb. Well,...

    Herb Sutter: C++ Questions and Answers

    Herb’s last appearance on C9 was a relatively short chat with me about C++0x. You wanted more questions asked and some of you thought I was just too soft on Herb. Well,...

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  • Sorting is one of the most fundamental problems in software algorithms; there are many sequential sorting algorithms with different time and memory complexities, but when it comes to parallel sort,...

    Parallel Merge Sort using Barrier

    Sorting is one of the most fundamental problems in software algorithms; there are many sequential sorting algorithms with different time and memory complexities, but when it comes to parallel sort,...

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  • Asynchronous programming has been around for awhile in Visual Studio.  The new Async CTP feature, with the Await statement, provides a simpler, more organized code pattern than existing alternatives for...

    Using Async for Multi-Threading (Alan Berman)

    Asynchronous programming has been around for awhile in Visual Studio.  The new Async CTP feature, with the Await statement, provides a simpler, more organized code pattern than existing alternatives for...

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