Reactive Extensions for.NET

Abstract

For developers, the computing world of today demands the adoption of concurrent approaches to programming, much more so than just a few short years ago. Computer users expect ever-increasing computational power from their electronic gadgets, including their mobile devices. Unfortunately, it seems that the only way manufacturers will be able to increase computational speed in the near future is through adding extra processors (instead of making a single processor faster, as had been the case over the last few decades). In the case of processors on personal computers, the industry may soon be hitting a proverbial brick wall, with the maximum computational capacity available on a single processing unit close to being exhausted. An average personal computer today already comes with two or more processing units, and the number is likely to increase in the future.