Learn how to make use of the multiple cores of the Raspberry Pi 2 or any Linux multi-core system using the pthread library in a C program. In this video I demonstrate how. A single thread in a single process only utilize one core of the Raspberry Pi 2 while multiple threads are used to make use of multiple cores.
A great reference for your shelf for how to manage threads and processes in Linux is The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook by Michael Kerrisk. Its what I refer to often when trying to remember how to do something in Linux:
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