For a long time now, researchers have been working on automating the process of breaking up otherwise single-threaded code to run on multiple processors by way of multiple threads. Results, although ...

Successive generations of single-core processors no longer show much performance improvement — Moore's Law has run out for the single core, at least in terms of what can be done within the heat and ...

In the prior two articles in this series (What Is SMP Without Shared Memory? and The Essentials Of Multiprocessor Programming), we have gone through the theory behind programming multi-threaded ...

I've been getting a fair number of questions about multi-threading the past couple of weeks. The reason is that Intel has been previewing its "Nehalem EX" Xeon processor in advance of Advanced Micro ...

Eric Vogel shows you how to use the CultureInfo API in .NET Framework 4.5 to simplify localization in a multi-threaded application. The .NET Framework 4.5 includes a simplified way of setting the ...

TL;DR: Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney reveals Unreal Engine 6 is 2-3 years away, promising major upgrades like enhanced multi-threaded performance and unified development across platforms. UE6 aims to ...

With multithreaded applications, there are situations where it is unavoidable or desirable to wait for other threads. Implementing such wait instruction sequences correctly is important for both ...

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Zen 3 is a force to be reckoned with, assuming the various benchmark leaks are even remotely accurate. Not that we are surprised—Zen 2 is one heck of a CPU architecture, so it stands to reason that ...