May 2008 - Posts

• When does it make sense to use Win32 Fibers?

  This has been discussed fairly frequently on the Web. Chris Brumme discusses this here: http://blogs.msdn.com/cbrumme/archive/2003/04/15/51351.aspx Raymond Chen discusses this here: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/12/31/344799.aspx . There’s Read More... Posted Sunday, May 18, 2008 8:13 AM by ericeil | 2 Comments Filed under: Concurrency, Unmanaged

• ThreadPool changes in .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta

  .NET 3.5 SP1 (A.K.A. CLR 2.0 SP2) is now available as a Beta release. This beta release has the fix for the ThreadPool ramp-up issue discussed here and here . It also has some other improvements to the ThreadPool's thread creation algorithm that can dramatically Read More... Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 12:22 PM by ericeil | 1 Comments Filed under: Managed, ThreadPool