Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Simulating an Intensive Work

Parallel LINQ provides benefits when you work in extreme situations such as intensive works or large amounts of data. In different situations, PLINQ is not necessarily better than classic LINQ. To understand how PLINQ works, first you need to write code that simulates an intensive work. After creating a new Console project, write the following method that determines whether a number is odd but suspends the current thread for several milliseconds by invoking the System.Threading.Thread.SpinWait shared method:

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'Checks if a number is oddPrivate Function IsOdd(ByVal number As Integer) As Boolean    'Simulate an intensive work    System.Threading.Thread.SpinWait(1000000)    Return (number ...