Express Parallelism, Don’t Manage It

Provocative title from an article at DevX.com

For example, it’s very tempting to use the operating system’s native threading library directly on a multicore platform, such as WinThreads on Windows or Posix Threads on Linux. But this choice is a mistake. You’ll see why in the rest of this article. Instead, an important key to unlocking the performance potential of current and future multicore platforms is to choose a model that lets you express concurrency without requiring that you explicitly manage it.

Tip of the hat again to Multicoreinfo.com.



 

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