multithreading

One of my favourite ways of multi-threading on Windows

Ondrej Kelle
May 20, 2018February 13, 2019

Having blogged about a few bugs in multi-threading libraries recently, I want to show an easy and convenient alternative. It’s minimalistic but it works. On… Read More »

Another Bug

Ondrej Kelle
April 28, 2018February 13, 2019

So you’ve put in the time and effort to refactor your code and data for parallel execution and are eager to see some parallel action.… Read More »

Don’t lose time with a known Delphi bug affecting TParallel.Join

Ondrej Kelle
April 22, 2018February 13, 2019

Writing multi-threaded code is hard and takes a lot of time. That’s why it’s especially annoying to waste time with bugs like this. Reading (and… Read More »

Potential Deadlocks in Parallel.For

Ondrej Kelle
September 11, 2016

Recently, I’ve come across some C# code deadlocking quite reproducibly while executing some tasks using Parallel.For method. The seemingly innocuous code lead to an “obscure… Read More »

The strange limitation of 64 threads

Ondrej Kelle
March 27, 2016

When using the Windows I/O Completion Port (IOCP), people seem to limit their thread pools to a maximum of 64 threads. This is probably caused… Read More »