Intel has updated its free online guide to developing multithreaded applications. The guide comprises 24 articles covering application threading, synchronisation, memory management and programming tools. The guide dates back to March 2010, but it’s now been updated with a number of new and revised articles. The updates are: A new article on using AVX without [...]
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I find it hard to resist a box of 12” records when I come across it in a charity shop or second hand store. A lot of great remixes were only ever released on vinyl, and the current fashion for releasing compilations of 12” singles can’t possibly cover all the great stuff that was released [...]
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When you use the Parallel Patterns Library (PPL) that ships with Visual Studio, you have a choice of three different sorting algorithms: parallel sort, parallel buffered sort, and parallel radix sort. So how do you choose the best one? Vinod Subramanian from Microsoft has written a blog post for MSDN which shows the impact that [...]
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