can we use interchangeably "Parallel coding" and "Multithreading coding " on single cpu? i am not much experience in both, but i want to shift my coding style to any one of the above. As i found...

I want to build 4 separate apks for 4 different Android CPU processor architectures (armeabi armeabi-v7a x86 mips) using Gradle. I have native OpenCV libraries built for 4 CPU architectures in th...

I have a Python program for Linux almost looks like this one : import os import time process = os.popen("top").readlines() time.sleep(1) os.popen("killall top") print process the program han...

I'm trying to understand the logic behind how this class was written, and when I should and shouldn't use it. Any insight would be appreciated internal struct SpinLock { private volatile int lock...

I found a good question for measuring function performance, and the answers recommend to use Stopwatch as follows Stopwatch sw = new Stopwatch(); sw.Start(); //DoWork sw.Stop(); //take sw.Elapsed ...

Ok, so I am reading about synchronization, and I read through various algorithms such as spinlocks, semaphores, and mutex to avoid race condition. However, these algorithms can't prevent race cond...

For a uni-processor, the lock algorithm is pretty simple. Lock(threadID) { Disable Interrupts If lock is already owned by same thread{ Restore Interrupts return } if lock is free { make loc...

I've been doing some tests about the way a .NET C# application uses resources, like CPU or memory. I wrote some loops that calculate values for a large amount of numbers and I'm satisfied with the ...

Hi I have a simple script that takes a file and runs another Perl script on it. The script does this to every picture file in the current folder. This is running on a machine with 2 quad core Xeon ...

I am using the Haptek People Putty player for my C# application and I've seen people say in the forums that it doesn't work well with a multicore processor. My application runs well on my Core 2 Du...

Why is it that I can find lots of information on "work stealing" and nothing on "work shrugging" as a dynamic load-balancing strategy? By "work-shrugging" I mean pushing surplus work away from bus...

I'm coming largely from a c++ background, but I think this question applies to threading in any language. Here's the scenario: We have two threads (ThreadA and ThreadB), and a value x in shared m...