Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Chapter 29. Overview of Parallel LINQ

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Introducing PLINQ

• Handling Exceptions

Modern computers have multiple processors or multicore processors. The benefit of having such hardware is that it provides, among other things, the ability for scaling data processing over all the available processors via multiple threads, instead of using one processor and possibly one thread. Until .NET Framework 3.5, no native library was offered to take advantage of multicore architectures, so you could only unleash your processors as if they were one. Luckily, .NET Framework 4.0 introduces a new fundamental framework known as Task Parallel Library that is all about parallel computing and multicore architectures. The framework is discussed in ...