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Improved documentation for the AffineThreadPool class

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Markus Ewald 2009-09-27 10:48:38 +00:00
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@ -32,8 +32,14 @@ namespace Nuclex.Support {
/// Unlike the normal thread pool, the affine thread pool provides only as many
/// threads as there are CPU cores available on the current platform. This makes
/// it more suitable for tasks you want to spread across all available cpu cores
/// explicitely, however, it's not a good match if you just want to run a series
/// of tasks asynchronously.
/// explicitely.
/// </para>
/// <para>
/// However, it's not a good match if you want to run blocking or waiting tasks
/// inside the thread pool because the limited available threads will become
/// congested quickly. It is encouraged to use this class in parallel with
/// .NET's own thread pool, putting tasks that can block into the .NET thread
/// pool and task that perform pure processing into the affine thread pool.
/// </para>
/// <para>
/// Implementation based on original code provided by Stephen Toub