Most Common Performance Issues in Parallel Programs
The Parallel Programming with .NET (pfxteam) has published a list of issues why a concurrent program may not achieve a parallel speedup that you would expect.
* Amount of Parallelizable CPU-Bound Work
* Task Granularity
* Load Balancing
* Memory Allocations and Garbage Collection
* False Cache-Line Sharing
* Locality Issues
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