A thread of execution is a set of instructions that are managed by a scheduler. If you make a new thread separate from your program’s main thread, a new independent execution flow will be added to ...
After a nice discussion about the virtues of the current MacOS kernel as opposed to a Linux/BSD one, I did some performance testing. Yes, some stuff is slower on the Mac. But many people have accused ...
This two-part series addresses the use and misuse of two of the most essential synchronization primitives in modern embedded systems, the mutex (this part) and the semaphore (part 2). Mutexes and ...