The ability to execute code in parallel is crucial in a wide variety of scenarios. Concurrent programming is a key asset for web servers, producer/consumer models, batch number-crunching and pretty ...

Python lets you parallelize workloads using threads, subprocesses, or both. Here's what you need to know about Python's thread and process pools and Python threads after Python 3.13. By default, ...

Multicore processors are adding a new dimension of performance to the traditional realm of embedded software design. To take advantage of multicore processors, developers must learn the ins and outs ...

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Transactional memory systems represent a paradigm shift in concurrent programming by abstracting low-level lock management and enabling sequences of operations to be executed as atomic transactions.

The second revision of Intel’s Thread Building Block (TBB) product was threefold. First, there was a new version of TBB with its collection of improvements and bug fixes. The second was the move to ...

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Escape the single-threaded event loop in browsers and on the server. Here's how to use worker threads and web workers for modern multithreading in JavaScript. The JavaScript language is one of the ...