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November 4, 2010Nov 4, 201011/4/10
We’re interested in adding support for scheduling
cancellation. For example:
// Create a
token source that will Cancel() after a delay
var cts = new CancellationTokenSource(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100));
// And/or
schedule a Cancel() call
cts.CancelAfter(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100));
We’ve heard from many folks that this is a desired feature
and have found good uses for it ourselves.
October 21, 2010Oct 21, 201010/21/10We’ve been considering adding a Values property to
System.Threading.ThreadLocal<T>. Values
would return a collection of all current values from all threads (e.g. what
you’d get if you evaluated Value from each thread). This would allow for easy aggregations, and
in fact in our Parallel Extensions Extras we have a wrapper around
ThreadLocal<T>
October 7, 2010Oct 7, 201010/7/10
We’ve been considering adding support for creating completed
Tasks from an existing result. Here’s a
prototypical example of where this could be valuable.
void
Task<float> ComputeAsync(…)
{
if (!resultIsCached)
{
return
Task<float>.Factory.StartNew(() => Compute());
}
February 4, 2010Feb 4, 201002/4/10Several months ago, Microsoft announced for academic customers the availability of DryadLINQ. DryadLINQ is a LINQ provider developed by Microsoft Research that enables .NET developers to use the LINQ programming model for writing distributed queries and computations against a cluster of computers using Windows HPC Server.
August 12, 2008Aug 12, 200808/12/08The June 2008 CTP of Parallel Extensions contained a first look at some of the work we’re doing to augment the .NET Framework with a set of additional coordination data structures that aid in the development of highly concurrent applications. This included two thread-safe collections,
August 1, 2008Aug 1, 200808/1/08One of the primary reasons we’ve released CTPs of Parallel Extensions is to solicit feedback on the design and functionality it provides. Does it provide all of the APIs you need to get your job done? Are there scenarios you wished the APIs supported and that you need to work around in klunky ways?
