This article introduces the TAP and the associated .NET language changes that streamline asynchronous programming and extend the multithreading enhancements in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4. With ...

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I spent the day on Seesmic yesterday and had a 90-post conversation involving several of the members. I’ll say first of all that Seesmic has made TONS of improvements since Andrew Lipson gave me an ...

Python is one of many languges that support some way to write asynchronous programs — programs that switch freely among multiple tasks, all running at once, so that no one task holds up the progress ...

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To understand and appreciate the distinction between asynchronous programming without multiple threads and asynchronous programming that depends on additional threads, consider two examples. First, ...