Improving Steam Client Stability on Linux(ttimo.typepad.com)
430 points by Venn1 | 130 comments
Blog post by Timothee Besset explaining how Valve improved Steam client stability on Linux by addressing unsafe setenv/getenv use in multithreaded code.
#multithreading on Hacker News
4 stories tagged multithreading, newest first.
Show HN: Dut – a fast Linux disk usage calculator(codeberg.org)
350 points by 201984 | 139 comments
Codeberg repository for dut, a multi-threaded disk usage calculator for Linux written in C as a single source file.
PostgreSQL reconsiders its process-based model(lwn.net)
761 points by todsacerdoti | 338 comments
LWN article by Jonathan Corbet on PostgreSQL developers discussing moving from a process-per-connection model to a threaded architecture.
A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop (2021)(pkolaczk.github.io)
456 points by xk3 | 138 comments
Blog post by Piotr Kołaczkowski explaining how one line of code caused a parallel program to run slower on a 24-core server than on a 4-core laptop.