.NET Parallel Programming

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June 2009 - Page 2 of 2 - .NET Parallel Programming

CLR 4 – Inside the ThreadPool

June 1, 2009 Jun 1, 2009 06/1/09
Stephen Toub - MSFT
As we’ve mentioned previously, the .NET ThreadPool has undergone some serious renovations in .NET 4, improvements on which the Task Parallel Library and PLINQ both rely.  Erika Parsons and Eric Eilebrecht are the PM and developer on the CLR team for the ThreadPool, and they’re featured in a great new Channel9 video covering ...

Tasks and Unhandled Exceptions

June 1, 2009 Jun 1, 2009 06/1/09
Stephen Toub - MSFT
Prior to the .NET Framework 2.0, unhandled exceptions were largely ignored by the runtime.  For example, if a work item queued to the ThreadPool threw an exception that went unhandled by that work item, the ThreadPool would eat that exception and continue on its merry way.  Similarly, if a finalizer running on the finalizer thread ...