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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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