Using multiple threads can help you achieve greater performance, scalability, and responsiveness in your applications—but you need to be careful. This article begins a series on the tools and ...

Simultaneous multi-threading is a useful performance tool for processor designers, but it doesn't have the same benefit that adding a full core does. Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist although ...

Memory and threading errors are very hard to find and correct just by looking at the code. Memory leaks, data corruption, illegal accesses, data races, deadlocks, and so on, are rarely detectable this ...

The top-end Ryzen 7 1800X boasts eight cores and 16 threads just like Intel’s Kaby Lake Core i7-6900K, but in a 95W package that costs half the price of Intel’s octo-core offering. And when it comes ...