The former lords of multiprocessing in the supercomputing realm have a term for problems that are easily decomposed for distribution to multiple processors. They call such problems “embarrassingly ...

I have to state again that running two threads on a single core processor CAN be faster that running one thread. I have a program that definitely works that way (no Hyperthreading) and my roommate's ...

Structured concurrency, a new proposal incubating in the OpenJDK community, would treat multiple tasks running in different Java threads as a single unit of work. Multithreaded programming could be ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...