Re: whats faster, initialize component, or form load?

On Jul 5, 6:37 am, "Cor Ligthert [MVP]" <notmyfirstn...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Alex,

By the way, I think that you are more talking about what started as
multiprogramming. Something I did already long ago on mainframes. I did it
with datacomm work too, but to show what I mean, I write bellow the most
simple batch process as sample.

You read a tape and put that in a queue.
In the same time you process the queue.
In the same time you print the results from the queue.

The first will end very much before the second and mostly the third takes
the most time, however it shorten the throughput only a little bit. (Because
of that the sum of the processes was mostly not much longer than the
printing time).

That is just easy. But that is for me no parallel processing. In a parallel
process they end all at almost the same time.

So unless the processes all end at almost the same time there is no
parallel processing? That sounds like a silly definition to me.

There is only parallelism while more than one thing is happening at
once, of course - while, for instance, the tape is being read *and*
the queue is being processed at the same time. Even if that only
happens for part of the time, during that phase it's parallel
processing.

Jon

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