Web Workers Part 2: Using jQuery Deferred
Jonathan Cardy, February 18th, 2011
The .NET Task Parallel Library is a great advance in parallel programming for the .NET framework. It lets us easily run an anonymous method in another thread without any worries about the actual thread creation. A Task object wraps up a piece of parallel code, and provides a notification of when it’s complete. We can [...]
Introduction to Parallelism in .NET 4.0
Jonathan Cardy, November 16th, 2010
Back in the day, processors had a single core and clock speeds increased steadily every year. This meant that although writing multi-threaded code for a single CPU gave some performance improvements (since single-core CPUs usually try to execute multiple threads), it was hardly the top of any developer’s list of priorities. In the last few [...]