multicore processors
Dual core CPUs were a desktop novelty in the first half of 2005. Now, with the introduction of the Mac Pro (see one unboxed), dual core is officially pass. Quad core – at least in the form of two dual-core CPUs – is where it’s at for desktop systems. And sometime
multithreading
As a follow-up to my caution about exceptions in Form.Paint(), I wanted to illustrate why this technique is so effective. Let’s say you had a form with this code: Private IsFirstPaint As Boolean = True Private Sub DoWork() Cursor = Cursors.WaitCursor StatusBar1.Text = "Loading..." System.Threading.Thread.
multithreading
Back when I was writing for Tech Report, I had an epiphany: the future of CPU development had to be multiple cores on the same die. Even in 2001, a simple extrapolation of transistor counts versus time bore this out: what the heck are they going to do with those