Monday, June 10, 2013

[femzmlej] Fast multithreading

There appears to be a hole in software tools (compilers) for achieving high performance multithreading, with lots of people rolling their own busy loop or lightweight threads, being unsatisfied with the performance of standard library or operating system provided threads. Most recently, I was disappointed with pthread.

This is a significant problem because concurrent programming is already hard enough to get right even without having to think about manual optimization.

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