Comments on: Parallelism in .NET – Part 1, Decomposition

By: Angel Eyes

Angel Eyes — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:40:15 +0000

Thanks, that was very clear and concise. I’m going to read on about the tasks, and all the way to csharp 5.0 and async

By: Shirley

Shirley — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 04:14:54 +0000

Superior thinking demontsrated above. Thanks!

By: Tariq Azam

Tariq Azam — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:55:19 +0000

I wish i would have discovered it earlier. Great work Reed.

By: Reed

Reed — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:14:14 +0000

Cyril,

Although I love VS 2010 RC and .NET 4, you can use this in .NET 3.5sp1. It requires installing the Rx Framework, available at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/ee794896.aspx

The Rx Framework includes a backport of nearly all of the Task Parallel Library and PLINQ. (The differences are mainly differences in the ThreadPool – the backport uses .NET 3.5′s ThreadPool, which is not as feature-rich as .NET 4′s ThreadPool.)

-Reed

By: Cyril Gupta

Cyril Gupta — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:51:45 +0000

Excellent series Reed! I wanted to use the Task Parallel library in my latest project but when I tried to look for it (in .Net framework 3.5) there wasn’t any task class in the Threading namespace.

I thought you said it had been back-included in 3.5 sp1?

I am now changing over to .Net 4.

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By: Sachin

Sachin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:29:12 +0000

Great article. I was looking for good and simple artilce on PLINQ and you really made a simple and effective article… Its going to be interesting to read this series.

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By: Reed

Reed — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:44:03 +0000

Caspar,

Glad to hear it! I’m actually having a lot of fun with this – I’ve been wanting to write about parallelism in depth for a while… I hope the series continues to be useful for you.

-Reed

By: Caspar Kleijne

Caspar Kleijne — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:22:19 +0000

Great article,

made absolute sense to me! I’ve got a feeling this is leading to a very interesting refreshing way of thinking and programming. (at least for me)