The difference between distributed computing and concurrent programming is a common area of confusion as there is a significant amount of overlap between the two when you set out to accomplish ...

Behind games and entertainment, training and education and branded experience were most common use cases for augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality. As Facebook explains, the ...

This article dives into the happens-before semantics of Go channels, explaining how they relate to memory visibility, ...

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It's been two years since Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talked up Dryad, Microsoft's concurrent-programming competitor to Google's MapReduce and Apache Hadoop. But this week, Dryad was back on the ...

Structured concurrency, a new proposal incubating in the OpenJDK community, would treat multiple tasks running in different Java threads as a single unit of work. Multithreaded programming could be ...

You will not get the automatic speedup for your software when you upgrade to a new computer, since the frequency scaling is virtually stopped, and you only get more ...

Five years after Swift 5, Apple's open-source programming language has been released in version 6.0. The release primarily completes the preparatory work of the last point releases in the area of ...