Light-Weight Processes: Dissecting Linux Threads
This article, aimed at Linux developers and students of computer science, explores the fundamentals of threads and their implementation in Linux with Light-Weight Processes, aiding understanding with a code implementation. Threads are the…
CodeSport (February 2011)
Welcome to CodeSport! We will continue the discussion that began last month about software transactional memory. The main difference between traditional lock-based synchronisation and software transactional memory is that lock-based synchronisation is based…
Turbo Charge Python Apps with Speed, Part 2
In an earlier article, we tried out some of the tools to turbo-charge mainly CPU-bound Python programs, without modifying the source code too often. Another way to boost run-time performance is to leverage…
May 22, 2013
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May 22, 2013
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May 21, 2013
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May 21, 2013
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