Concurrent Programming on Windows

Foreword

The Computer Industry is once again at a crossroads. Hardware concurrency, in the form of new manycore processors, together with growing software complexity, will require that the technology industry fundamentally rethink both the architecture of modern computers and the resulting software development paradigms.

For the past few decades, the computer has progressed comfortably along the path of exponential performance and capacity growth without any fundamental changes in the underlying computation model. Hardware followed Moore’s Law, clock rates increased, and software was written to exploit this relentless growth in performance, often ahead of the hardware curve. That symbiotic hardware–software relationship continued unabated until ...