A Simple Thread Barrier Implementation
Sometimes a group of concurrently running threads may need to rendezvous at a certain point in time before they can […]
Poor Man’s Parallel Task Dispatcher
Even though multi-core processors are almost ubiquitous nowadays, applications are slow to catch up. Of course, one could always re-write […]
Interfacing IPP with Magick++
Intel’s Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) is a low level C++ library. It provides routines that are highly optimized on Intel […]
TBB Mandelbrot Set
In an earlier post, I created a simple prime finding program using Intel’s TBB (Thread Building Block). The main benefit […]
A Simple TBB Program: TBB Prime
I have been playing around with Intel’s Threading Building Block for a while and have started to really appreciate its […]
Hyper-Threading and Dual Core Performance Comparison for Computational Intensive Applications – Update
In a post (Hyper-Threading and Dual Core Performance Comparison for Computational Intensive Applications) I wrote at the end of last […]
Hyper-Threading and Dual Core Performance Comparison for Computational Intensive Applications
Download MPThreadBench.zip There is no doubt that Hyper-Threading can, under certain circumstances, boost application performance.
Thread Safety Made Easier Under Visual Studio 2005
Most of us know that controls in Windows forms are bound to a specific thread and are not thread safe, […]