There’s a lot of talk these days about multicore technology and multithreaded development. The trend toward multiple compute cores is growing and having a profound impact on developers across various ...

Multithreaded programming isn't a new idea, but it's experiencing a major upswing in attention. That's because many multicore- chip vendors are pushing multithreading as the best way to harness their ...

In a recent project, I had the task of programming time-consuming calculations that took place in the background of a desktop application. The motivation was to allow the user to continue working with ...