“If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it,” is a maxim of uncertain origin. Despite its counterintuitive nature, versions of the axiom have been with us since the mid-1800s. It assumes ...

Python lets you parallelize workloads using threads, subprocesses, or both. Here's what you need to know about Python's thread and process pools and Python threads after Python 3.13. By default, ...

Like what does it do/effect really? There are those double socket multicore xeon systems out there, but their single thread sucks. then theres threadripper which seems to crush both. All CPU bound ...

TL;DR: Intel's new patent reveals Software Defined Super Cores (SDC), enabling multiple smaller cores to dynamically fuse into a virtual "Super Core" to boost single-threaded performance and IPC ...

Will Alder Lake really be all that and a bag of silicon chips? That's what many benchmark leaks have suggested. If you want to add yet another one to the growing pile, a screenshot of a CPU-Z ...

For a long time now, researchers have been working on automating the process of breaking up otherwise single-threaded code to run on multiple processors by way of multiple threads. Results, although ...