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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
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This is an article in a series of blog entries describing a set of new Coordination Data Structures (CDS) introduced in the June 2008 CTP of the Parallel Extensions for .NET Framework . In C#, when a field declaration includes a readonly modifier, assignments
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This is an article in a series of blog entries describing a set of new Coordination Data Structures (CDS) introduced in the June 2008 CTP of the Parallel Extensions for .NET Framework . Waiting on locks usually result in a thread context switch and associated
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This is an article in a series of blog entries describing a set of new Coordination Data Structures (CDS) introduced in the June 2008 CTP of the Parallel Extensions for .NET Framework . LazyInit<T> provides support for several common patterns of
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Task Parallel Library (TPL) allows you to easily cancel tasks. Effectively you need to call the Cancel method on the task in question. Imagine the simple sample below: Task task1 = Task .Create(Foo, 10000); static void Foo( object o) { for ( int i = 0;
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The Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft has recently launched the Parallel Computing Development Centre along with our first CTP of Parallel FX . In here, I will explore some aspects of the framework. If you feel comfortable with the basics
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