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more about #multicore more comments → DudleyJibsheet: this is very informative -- thank you! looks like the name 'snow leopard' is a good fit -- rare and fast. there's a good article on the ever-feline... more » joule79: I think you are missing the whole point. Parallel programming has been around for ages in threading. The issue with threading is that too many of them... more » BelleCachinga: ""valid concern on Windows that a mixture of parallel apps won't cooperate with each other as much," so you could wind up with a situation where say, ... more » ripfire: I'm having a problem with this example: so you could wind up with a situation where say, four apps try to use all 16 cores in your machine, when you'... more » Nate Bosch: This is definitely the easiest read I've found explaining the differences between these approaches. Fantastic job making something so technical very ... more » BostonPimpDaddy2: Great article. Please do more of these if you can... more » iliad2099: Good article, matt. But do apps need to be written to utilize GCD, or will it speed up my existing apps? more » keving9012: Fantastic article, really broke down GCD and parallelism into terms most anyone can understand. more » ripfire: "Ok, let's see what we have here. Step 1, put this value in this register. Next step 2, multiply this register with this data..." [few nanoseconds lat... more » ChuckBlack: Oh man, GCD and Open CL are the two things I've been waiting for since 10.6 was announced! (Wets pants) We just gotta wait for software to catch up... more » Justin Paulson: Sounds like my entire operating systems class back in college. If you would have busted out the word semaphore I would have probably went into violen... more » med: Good article, makes a lot of sense. Kudos more » LinkinPain: great article ^_^ more » drgeelo: Excellent article. Very well written. more » Mateusz Romek Traczyk: Anyone notice that Gizmodo and LifeHacker have pretty much completely rapped Windows 7, inside - out. A rough estimate of 80% of posts on these two si... more » -
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Giz Explains: Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch
You've probably heard about this snow kitty operating system for Macintosh computers. What you might not've heard is exactly how it's supposed to be unleashing the power of all those processor cores crammed inside your computer. More » -
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Windows XP, Vista and 7 Tested For Multicore Performance, XP Still Wins For Now
InfoWorld has a very interesting test between Windows XP, Vista and 7 in terms of multicore performance, and it seems like Windows XP still wins (right now). But there are even more interesting things. More »
