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    2 quick questions...

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Ella Grande, Aug 10, 2006.

  1. Ella Grande

    Ella Grande Notebook Evangelist

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    1. What kind of programs are multi threaded now?

    2. Will everything be multi threaded in the future?
     
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    1. usually high end speciality apps

    2. maybe
     
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  3. Ella Grande

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    can multi threaded programs only run on dual core processors?
     
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    No, they will run fine on single core but with a small performance hit.
     
    usapatriot, Aug 10, 2006
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    Lots of programs are multithreaded now. Almost everything other than games is multithreaded, and certainly "boring" apps like MS Word or Firefox.

    And they run fine on a single-core CPU, just like a single-core CPU can run more than one app at a time. It's exactly the same thing, really. The OS just switches between all available threads in all available processes, every few microseconds.

    A dualcore cpu can run two threads simultaneously, but applications frequently use 5-10 threads, and then the OS still needs to swap threads all the time, just like it would on a singlecore system.
     
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    _radditz_, Aug 11, 2006
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