Re: Important question to all Euphoria users
Vincent wrote:
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> The large majority of non-server applications are sequential, single threaded
> applications. The OS may allow program processes to run on seperate cores, so
> there is increased effeciency, but the programs themselves wont really perform
> better, excect for increased built-in
> CPU cache. Multi-threaded applications gain all the advantages above,
> plus greatly increased performance and efficency, especially on chips
> with more than two cores.
>
> I've mentioned Intel and AMD are planning quad-core chips by 2007, so
> programs with four threads may speed up 2-3 times verses sequential programs.
> In general, as the number of core increase and the greater
> number of threads used in apps, the better overall performance compared
> to single threaded apps, despite mutex locking and other overhead.
Out of curiosity, what sort of things are you doing (or would like to do
that could really benefit from a multi-core architecture with multiple
threads? I can think of a few things I've done that could have benefitted
from this (some custom optimization programs I've done for work), but I
don't think it would really make any useful difference for most things.
Matt Lewis
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