Introducing the new Task type
Posted by: The Moth,
on 30 Dec 2008 |
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In a previous post I made the point about the need to finely partition our compute bound operations and enumerated the benefits of fine grained parallelism. In another post I showed how it is a mistake to directly use Threads to achieve fine grained parallelism. The problem was that the unit of partitioning in our user mode app was also the unit of scheduling of the OS.System.Threading.Tasks.TaskWe are introducing in mscorlib of .NET 4 the System.Threading.Tasks.Task type that represents a lightweight...