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It's often useful to ensure that actions occur on specific threads, in particular event handlers. Take Windows Forms for instance where all operations on a Control must occur on the thread it was created on. Typically this is not a problem
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In addition to Future<T> there is also the concept of Futures that don't return any values. Instead the perform the operation and return. Because there is no additional data to pass between the threads building an Empty Future is fairly
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If you read Jon Skeet's blog you'll notice he's been playing around lately with "push" style enumerators. Push enumerators are the concept of "we'll tell you when we're ready". This is different from IEnumerator<T> which is more of a pull; "ask
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Herb Sutter gave one of my favorite and inspiring presentations. It is called "The Free Lunch is Over". The original article can be found here . My first encounter though came from his PDC presentation and highly recommend
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By definition, an immutable object in computer science is one that is not able to change. Parallel coding is becoming more necessary as the number of cores in a processor are increasing but not the overall speed. As such immutability is will become more
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