Keyan Farlander Posted February 28, 2003 Share Posted February 28, 2003 Originally posted by Jabba The Hunt A computer can only run 1 process at a time anyway, thats why a multiprogramming (or multitasking) enviroment is the APPARENT simultaneous execution of two or more process's, so you see in the context of programming you can't have more than one thread running at a time. (although ill agree you can have more than one in the running or runnable status ). Now i'll agree the point of the exercise is lost when you start using a loop but surely it would work just aswell (im assuming here the C++ will allow you control of whether the loop is running/runnable or not) (when i say a loop I dont mean just 3 lines of code, you would obviously have to add code to determin which threads need more time etc) You're assuming you only have one CPU, f00. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Nine Posted February 28, 2003 Share Posted February 28, 2003 Owned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba The Hunt Posted February 28, 2003 Share Posted February 28, 2003 ok ok, ill stop acting like a vb'er. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted February 28, 2003 Share Posted February 28, 2003 What is the point of dual CPU's anyway? i never really understood why one would need 2, 1.x+ Ghz Processors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Beastie Posted March 1, 2003 Share Posted March 1, 2003 Originally posted by General Trageto Though ... I like your idea, Flying Beastie! I could surely make some big impression to my prof , he'd never expect anything like that! Just make sure you use Ayn Rand, otherwise it's just not funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba The Hunt Posted March 1, 2003 Share Posted March 1, 2003 Originally posted by Cmdr. Cracken What is the point of dual CPU's anyway? i never really understood why one would need 2, 1.x+ Ghz Processors. So you can run more than one program at once, and although you dont quite get a 2 GHz processor its still a lot faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted March 1, 2003 Share Posted March 1, 2003 Plus all the non-home uses. Scientific computations and such can be greatly improved with multiple processors (depending on the specific application). I really don't see the point in dual CPUs for home use, except for one or two cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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