Server and desktop CPUs have historically taken the brunt of the blame for poor application performance. With the arrival of each new application, performance would slow and CPUs would be overtaxed, ...

Nobody likes it when his smart phone application freezes up entirely while it fetches information from the Internet. This is a sign that the app's developer didn't use one thread to retrieve the data, ...

Processor architectures are beginning to hit performance ceilings both in terms of shrinking substrate geometry and increasing clock speeds. Consequently, Engineers are having to look at other ways to ...

With multithreaded applications, there are situations where it is unavoidable or desirable to wait for other threads. Implementing such wait instruction sequences correctly is important for both ...

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BERKELEY, Calif. &#151 Is multithreading better than multi-core? Is multi-core better than multithreading? The fact is that the best vehicle for a given application might have one, the other or both.