Naming a pthread using meaningful names, can be a very useful feature for debugging multi-threaded applications as it can make your logs very informative. For this reason, we are presenting two examples demonstrating the use of names in pthreads. [download id="3786"] [download id="3788"] Example 1: The pthread decides for its…
The following code tries to compare the performance of syslog() with the printf() command. [download id="3787"] On our machine, it appears that syslog() is faster than printf(). To be as fair as possible, when the application was executing, we were monitoring the system logs as well, so that they will…
SISAL (Streams and Iteration in a Single Assignment Language) is a general-purpose single assignment functional programming language with strict semantics, implicit parallelism, and efficient array handling. SISAL outputs a dataflow graph in Intermediary Form 1 (IF1). It was derived from VAL (Value-oriented Algorithmic Language, designed by Jack Dennis), and adds…