Getting Started with the .NET Task Parallel Library: Multi-Core Case Studies
There's more to any programming tool than just theory—and the TPL is no exception. Learn about the techniques Rod Stephens used and the problems he encountered in these parallelism case studies.
by Rod Stephens
September 29, 2008
he forerunner to this article, Getting Started with Task Parallel Library, explained how to use the Task Parallel Library (TPL) to launch swarms of tasks on separate threads that execute on all your computer's available CPUs. That article used basic stripped-down examples to demonstrate TPL concepts. But as usual, there's a difference between theory and practice. While simple examples make understanding the TPL parts of the code easier, they're not very realistic.
As a bridge between learning and practice, this article describes a series of programs originally created as sequential programs, but converted to use the TPL. They demonstrate various techniques for preventing different threads from interfering with each other.
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