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, ...

Lately, vectorization, an optimization technique synonymous with early vector supercomputers like the Cray-1 (1975), has reappeared with even greater importance than before. Exploiting the performance ...

A reader recently contacted us and asked a question worth answering in an article. How does Windows (and perhaps all OS's) take advantage of multiple cores? Alternatively, if this function is built ...

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Malcolm loves games. Be they trading card games like Magic: the Gathering or Yu-Gi-Oh, or tabletop wargames like Heroscape and Warhammer 40K, Malcolm's got a firm passion for all things interactive.

Multiprocessing, multithreading and evented I/O: the trade-offs in Web servers. A Web server needs to support concurrency. The server should service clients in a timely, fair manner to ensure that no ...

Major side-channel exploits demonstrated the feasibility of programs extracting data from a program in an adjacent thread in the same core. Here's how and why to ...

The popular comparison benchmark Cinebench has a new version. It explicitly includes a test for Simultaneous Multithreading.

The recent Leibson’s Law blog entries on concurrency and multithreading are getting so much comment that I wanted to make sure that those interested don’t miss Ed Lee’s Microsoft lecture on “Making ...

A new render engine for Cinebench 2026 comes complete with wider support for CPUs and GPUs, as well as new features.