Chapter 11. Asynchronous and Parallel Programming
For most of computing’s history, software developers have been spoiled by processor manufacturers that were constantly pushing the limits of their chips’ clock speeds. If you needed your software to run faster (to process larger data sets, or because users were complaining about the system freezing when it was really just busy), often all you had to do was upgrade to the latest chip. Over the past decade or so something changed: Processor manufacturers began improving processor performance not by increasing clock speeds but by adding processing cores.
Although processor architecture has changed, software architecture has largely remained static. Multicore processors have become the norm, yet many ...
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