Scott Hanselman

Hanselminutes Podcast 84 - Concurency Programming with .NET Parallel Framework Extensions

October 12, 2007 Comment on this post [4] Posted in ASP.NET | LINQ | Microsoft | Podcast | Programming
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image My eighty-fourth podcast is up. Scott chats on the Microsoft campus with Stephen Toub, a Microsoft Developer working on a team coming up with new ways to make concurrency programming easier with .NET. We get pretty deep and pretty philosophical about concurrency, threading, and parallelism. Also check out an older Channel 9 Video (just released) on the topic as well.

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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October 12, 2007 23:47
I agree, that is hot!
October 14, 2007 14:48
Ah you just picked this subject to rub us all in you just build a quad core :).

Seriously though, very interesting podcast, thanks !
October 15, 2007 19:59
Hey Now Scott,
I liked this episode, as always I learned a few things. I liked Stephen's predition in 2012 everyone has a 16 core processor so let's us it.
Thx,
Catto
October 16, 2007 6:12
The IO-bound speed bump that you mentioned is a good one and I've run into it many times. You can make your application as thread-happy as you want, but at the end of the day, IO (database, in most cases) will hold you back.

So that's another show idea: exploring ways to parallelize or reduce the database bottlenecks and other IO.

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