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- 1 2 Davies, Alex (2012). Async in C# 5.0. O'Reilly. pp. 1–2. ISBN 9781449337124.
- ↑ McCool, Michael; Reinders, James; Robison, Arch (2013). Structured Parallel Programming: Patterns for Efficient Computation. Elsevier. p. 30.
- ↑ ICE usage of AMD.
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