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Introducing Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework
There is no escaping from concurrency challenges... or is there? (A slightly modified version of this article was published in the August 2008 edition of the MSDN Flash newsletter ) Dual, quad, and eight-core processors are becoming the norm. Is your Read More...
A Performance Comparison of ReaderWriterLockSlim with ReaderWriterLock
If you have ever used the System.Threading.ReaderWriterLock to achieve synchronised access to shared resources which are frequently read but infrequently updated then you probably know why we have created a new Reader/Write lock. In this MSDN Magazine’s Read More...
Dedicated thread or a Threadpool thread?
Each .NET CLR based process is given a pool of threads. The size of the thread pool is configurable however by default the maximum number of threads created by the thread pool is set to 1000 IO threads in total, and 25 worker threads per logical or physical Read More...
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