The relationship between processor and operating system is crucial. If an OS can’t properly manage the tasks set before it, it doesn’t matter how fast the CPU runs. At a private press and analyst ...

For developers, threading is an important issue that impacts game performance. Here's how task scheduling works in Apple Silicon games. Demands on GPU and CPUs are some of the most compute-intensive ...

The kernel dispatcher and associated subsystems provide for the prioritization and scheduling of kernel threads in one of several bundled scheduling classes. The details of the implementation are ...

There've been reports buzzing around that AMD's Ryzen CPU performs much better by some metrics in Windows 7 compared with Windows 10. AMD has investigated those claims itself and released its own ...

Once the dust settled on the Ryzen R7 CPU launch we started seeing reports it's multi-core design wasn't playing nicely with Windows 10. AMD though have announced today there aren't any problems with ...

Sporadic events are the bugaboo of many real-time systems. Finding a way to manage aperiodic behavior can spell the difference between system failure and system success. This article presents the ...