ith the processing power of single-core chips running out of steam, hardware manufacturers have turned to multicore processors to make up for the lack of processing power increases in single-core
he days of large increases in clock frequency are behind us. It was great while it lasted, but it’s now clear that we have finally hit a frequency wall. Contrary
emember the red telephone box, once a familiar sight on the streets of London? That’s a good example of mutually exclusive access to a shared resource, although you probably didn’t
f writing software is hard, then writing applications that will take full advantage of the ever-more-prevalent multicore/multi-CPU hardware?without introducing subtle race conditions and consistency errors?is even harder. Numerous solutions have
arallel computing and concurrent programming are rapidly becoming mainstream topics for discussion in the corporate world. These are not new ideas; in fact they’ve been around for more than 30
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en years after the ratification of the first ISO C++ standard, C++ is heading for no less than a revolution. C++0x, the new C++ standard due in 2009, brings a
ne major new feature in the C++0x standard is multi-threading support. Prior to C++0x, any multi-threading support in your C++ compiler has been provided as an extension to the C++
very C++ programmer has had one of those days: A simple use of a template library turns into a nightmare, with pages upon pages of error messages streaming out of