Lately I've been hearing a lot about how any program compiled for BeOS is automagically multithreaded. But how does it work? And could this feature be passed on to other compilers and/or operating ...

A reader recently contacted us and asked a question worth answering in an article. How does Windows (and perhaps all OS's) take advantage of multiple cores? Alternatively, if this function is built ...

I've been getting a fair number of questions about multi-threading the past couple of weeks. The reason is that Intel has been previewing its "Nehalem EX" Xeon processor in advance of Advanced Micro ...