Category: multi-threading

Upgrading from PThreads v2 to V3: What to Look out For

A fair amount has changed for the pthreads extension with the release of pthreads v3. This article aims to cover the necessary information for those who are looking to upgrade their applications from pthreads v2 to v3. If you’re unfamiliar with pthreads, check out my introduction to pthreads instead! A big thank ...

Appserver – Server Configuration, Dir Structure and Threads

In the first part of our Appserver series, we discussed the very high level differences of Appserver’s architecture to standard web server stacks and got you up and running with an Appserver instance. If you missed that part, please take the time to read it.In this part, we will be exploring the Appserver architect...

Parallel JavaScript with ParallelJS

One of the coolest new possibilities arriving along with HTML5 was the Worker interface of the Web Workers API. Beforehand, we had to introduce some tricks to still present a responsive website to the user. The Worker interface allows us to create functions that feature long runtime and require high-computational effor...