Software Development, Design, and Coding: With Patterns, Debugging, Unit Testing, and Refactoring

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J. F. Dooley, V. A. KazakovaSoftware Development, Design, and Codinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0285-0_14

14. Parallel Programming

John F. Dooley¹   and Vera A. Kazakova²

(1)

Galesburg, IL, USA

(2)

Knoxville, TN, USA

 

Concurrency is a property of the algorithm. Parallelism is a property of the machine.

—Douglas Eadline

Since the advent of microprocessors, Moore’s Law has said that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would double about every eighteen months to two years, while the size of the circuit would stay about the same or get smaller, and the price of that integrated circuit would stay about the same or get cheaper. This meant that we’d ...