Understanding and Using Tasks
The parallel computing in the .NET Framework development relies on the concept of tasks. This section is therefore about the core of the parallel computing, and you learn to use tasks for scaling units of work across multiple threads and processors.
Read this Section Carefully
This section is particularly important not only with regard to the current chapter, but also because the concept of tasks returns in Chapter 42, “Asynchronous Programming.” For this reason it is very important that you carefully read the concepts about tasks; you will reuse them in the next chapter.
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