Sunday, October 14, 2012

Multicore CPUs and the concurrency changes they bring - a brief note from IBM developerworks

Multicore CPUs and the concurrency changes they bring:

Summary:  Multicore chip architectures have brought little improvement to individual core performance. This continuing trend shifts the burden of maximizing the use of hardware resources to the developers of operating systems, programming languages, and applications. Many in the application-development community rely on thread-based concurrent programming to implement application parallelism. This article explains why thread-based programming is not the best approach for application parallelism in the multicore era.


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