For developers, threading is an important issue that impacts game performance. Here's how task scheduling works in Apple Silicon games. Demands on GPU and CPUs are some of the most compute-intensive ...

The relationship between processor and operating system is crucial. If an OS can’t properly manage the tasks set before it, it doesn’t matter how fast the CPU runs. At a private press and analyst ...

This month, I continue my four-part introduction to Java threads by focusing on thread scheduling, the wait/notify mechanism, and thread interruption. You’ll investigate how either a JVM or an ...

The kernel dispatcher and associated subsystems provide for the prioritization and scheduling of kernel threads in one of several bundled scheduling classes. The details of the implementation are ...