Chapter 7: Parallel processing and PLINQ

This chapter focuses on CPU-bound work and explains how .NET parallel-processing tools can shorten the execution time of divisible workloads.

Topics covered

• Recognizing CPU-bound work that can benefit from parallelism.
• The Parallel class and the costs of parallel execution.
• PLINQ execution, ordering, and performance tradeoffs.

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