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 ...
Nowadays, high-performance server software (for example, the HTTP accelerator) in most cases runs on multicore machines. Modern hardware could provide 32, 64 or more CPU cores. In such highly ...