CHIPS 'N DIPS

Musings on Broadbus and Multicore.

April 2006

As the computing world embraces multicore processors, it's getting harder to escape the need to make your apps multithreaded, and yet it's easy to understand the temptation to postpone the arduous task of refactoring your code into threads. Not only are the pitfalls numerous, but it's hard to know what will benefit from multithreading, and what won't. If you're going to invest the effort, it's important to get the most bang for your coding buck.

To that end, Gary Carleton and Walter Shands present a technique for analyzing the runtime performance characteristics of single-threaded applications with an eye toward making those apps multithreaded. Their article, "Performance Analysis and Multicore Processors," is featured now in the 64-bit Department

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