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General Programming Concepts:
Writing and Debugging Programs
Parallel Programming
Parallel programming is used to utilize the benefits
of new multiprocessor systems, while maintaining a full binary compatibility
with existing uniprocessor systems. The parallel programming facilities are
based on the concept of threads. The following information introduces threads
and the associated programming facilities. It also discusses general topics
concerning parallel programming:
Note
In this book, the word thread used
alone refers to user threads. This also applies to
user-mode environment programming references, but not to articles related
to kernel programming.
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