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I plan to read this book "The Art of Multiprocessor Programming" during this hackweek.
Recently on an open source project that I'm participating, I encounter one issue with SIMD and another issue with parallel computing.
I have bought this book for a while now, so it's a great opportunity for me to read this book in this hackweek.
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1 day ago by ameliabrooks244 | Reply
This is a fantastic idea! The Art of Multiprocessor Programming is one of those books that truly bridges theory and real-world concurrency challenges.
Reading it during hack week makes sense — especially given how parallelism is central to modern performance bottlenecks (SIMD, multithreading, lock-free algorithms, etc.).
A few thoughts / tips if you dive deeper:
Try doing small practice exercises: implement concurrent data structures (queues, stacks) from scratch to internalize concepts.
Use visualization tools to watch how threads interleave in critical sections — seeing the interleaving helps a lot.
Benchmark with different core counts and memory models to see how performance scales or degrades.
Also, keep an eye on memory consistency models and false sharing — those subtleties bite hard in real systems.
Looking forward to updates on your progress — this could lead to interesting contributions in whatever open project you apply parallelism to.
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