Lately I've been hearing a lot about how any program compiled for BeOS is automagically multithreaded. But how does it work? And could this feature be passed on to other compilers and/or operating ...

Concurrency allows overlapped execution of multiple program threads, which makes it impossible to consider all circumstances and eliminate all cracks in the system via traditional testing.

Preemptive multitasking, a popular technique for timesharing of computational resources in software-based systems, faces considerable difficulties when applied to partially reconfigurable hardware.