Successive generations of single-core processors no longer show much performance improvement — Moore's Law has run out for the single core, at least in terms of what can be done within the heat and ...

Until recently, true concurrency has been impossible on most computers marketed to consumers. Most have been one-processor models capable of executing only a single thread in any given time slice.

For a long time now, researchers have been working on automating the process of breaking up otherwise single-threaded code to run on multiple processors by way of multiple threads. Results, although ...