Many chapters make code changes in their applications to harness task or thread level parallelism with OpenMP. Chapter 17 drives home the meaning and value of being more “coarse-grained” in order to scale well. The challenges of making legacy code thread-safe are discussed in some detail in...
Well, it depends on what "register" means. The original meaning is the kind of storage with the smallest access latency. In CPUs, access to registers is faster than access to L1 caches, which in turn is faster than L2, etc. Small access latency means an expensive implementation, therefore ...
Specifically, if two (or more) keys are equivalent, meaning neither is less than the other, then these algorithms are free to reorder such keys in the process of sorting the data. In contrast, a stable sorting algorithm, such as stable sort and stable sort by key, preserves the relative ...
When SQL Server runs on a computer with more than one microprocessor/CPU or on SMP (a computer-architecture where two or more identical processors can connect to a single shared main memory and I/O and can perform the same functions. In case of multi-core processors, the SMP architecture ...
Referential transparency hasa fundamental implication for side-effect-free functions; therefore, it’s a desirable property because it represents the capability to replace a function call for a defined set of parameters with the value it returns without changing the meaning of the program. Using refer...
As a result of using this probability distribution for distributing connections, the connection distribution is therefore dynamic, meaning that it takes into account the resource utilizations of all connection groups. Such a distribution using a predefined probability distribution can be more efficient at...