Avoiding Heap Contention Among Threads

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Published on Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:34:00 GMT Indexed on 2010/06/02 20:04 UTC
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Allocating memory from the system heap can be an expensive operation due to a lock used by system runtime libraries to synchronize access to the heap. Contention on this lock can limit the performance benefits from multithreading. Learn how to solve this problem.

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Avoiding Heap Contention Among Threads

Posted on Code Project See other posts from Code Project
Published on Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:34:00 GMT Indexed on 2010/06/02 19:35 UTC
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Allocating memory from the system heap can be an expensive operation due to a lock used by system runtime libraries to synchronize access to the heap. Contention on this lock can limit the performance benefits from multithreading. Learn how to solve this problem.

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