Nobody likes it when his smart phone application freezes up entirely while it fetches information from the Internet. This is a sign that the app's developer didn't use one thread to retrieve the data, ...

A reader recently contacted us and asked a question worth answering in an article. How does Windows (and perhaps all OS's) take advantage of multiple cores? Alternatively, if this function is built ...

Multiprocessing, multithreading and evented I/O: the trade-offs in Web servers. A Web server needs to support concurrency. The server should service clients in a timely, fair manner to ensure that no ...

Multithreading support for client-side Blazor WebAssembly apps is planned for .NET 8 in November 2023, but developers can try it out now for .NET apps thanks to experimental functionality in the brand ...

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The idea of supporting a game long-term has been... hit or miss, for many studios. Some games don't get the support they need for the longest time, and others are No Man's Sky. Then you have cases ...

The recent Leibson’s Law blog entries on concurrency and multithreading are getting so much comment that I wanted to make sure that those interested don’t miss Ed Lee’s Microsoft lecture on “Making ...