Last time, we looked at how to use the rvalue references in Visual C++ 2010 to help you improve the performance of applications that use the Concurrency Runtime (see The Concurrency Runtime and Visual C++ 2010: Rvalue References ). This week we’ll examine...

In my last post I introduced the concepts of PPL tasks and continuations, and showed how to use them to orchestrate the work between the dependent tasks. I also alluded to the usefulness of the model in wait-free programming, and in particular, building...

Last time, we looked at how to use the decltype keyword in Visual C++ 2010 to deduce the type of an expression (see The Concurrency Runtime and Visual C++ 2010: The decltype Type Specifier ). This week we’ll look at rvalue references, a Visual C++ language...

The most difficult problem that a scheduler or a thread pool has to solve is figuring out how many running threads to have at any given moment. Create too many threads and the CPUs are oversubscribed. Create too few and the CPUs are underutilized. The...

Welcome back! Last time, we looked at how to use the auto keyword in Visual C++ 2010 to implicitly declare local variables based on their initialization (see The Concurrency Runtime and Visual C++ 2010: Automatic Type Deduction ). This week we’ll...