Dodging the Dangers of Explicit Multithreading

Dodging the Dangers of Explicit Multithreading
With all processors now having multiple cores even on mobile devices, an application that seeks high-performance computing needs to use multiple processes or threads. The temptation is to program multiple threads yourself, but this can be a journey fraught with perils. David Bolton walks you through some of those perils and suggests ways to mitigate them.