I recently read the book, “33 Million People in the Room” by Juliette Powell. The subtitle inspired me to get rich quick: “How to Create, Influence, and Run a Successful Business
ith the processing power of single-core chips running out of steam, hardware manufacturers have turned to multicore processors to make up for the lack of processing power increases in single-core
he days of large increases in clock frequency are behind us. It was great while it lasted, but it’s now clear that we have finally hit a frequency wall. Contrary
emember the red telephone box, once a familiar sight on the streets of London? That’s a good example of mutually exclusive access to a shared resource, although you probably didn’t
f writing software is hard, then writing applications that will take full advantage of the ever-more-prevalent multicore/multi-CPU hardware?without introducing subtle race conditions and consistency errors?is even harder. Numerous solutions have
arallel computing and concurrent programming are rapidly becoming mainstream topics for discussion in the corporate world. These are not new ideas; in fact they’ve been around for more than 30
ood old object-oriented programming is still alive and kicking. In many C++ frameworks and applications where inheritance and virtual functions thrive you often need to create a derived object whose
For authors, it’s a sad fact that when it comes to popularity, not all articles are created equal; some prove to be more popular than others. The truth is that
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