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Speed up blocking functions with PLINQ

published 695 days, 11 hours, 6 minutes ago posted by

http://vistadb.myopenid.com/ 700 days, 3 hours, 41 minutes ago

I have been studying the new PLINQ and Parallel Task Library in .Net 4 looking for various ways to do things that we can’t do in .Net 2.0. PLINQ is huge, and there are a lot of new ways to do multi threaded programming using .Net 4. In this article I want to cover a particular problem I have had many times over the years. How do you speed up multithreaded apps that are bound by blocking functions, or long running I/O operations? I started looking at this method to speed up some long running file I/O ...