Parallel Development in Visual Studio

When refactoring a serial application into a parallel application the minimum bar of acceptable performance is that the parallel application must run from beginning to end in less wall clock time than the serial application. If it doesn’t run faster...

Dustin Metzgar recently posted an entry which describes an interesting performance scenario in WCF. He used a couple of different tools to examine the problem, including the Concurrency Visualizer. See his entry here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dmetzgar...

I you haven't seen it already, Mark Friedman wrote an entry last spring (located here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ddperf/archive/2010/04/04/measuring-processor-utilization-and-queuing-delays-in-windows-applications.aspx ). Among other things, it goes in...