Re: Running software on Dual or Quad core CPU

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On Feb 16, 9:04 am, "William LaMartin" <lamar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
When you say multi-threading done to the application, do you simply mean
that within the program you start several different threads to accomplish
various things.

For example, I just wrote an application to go out on the Internet and
gather three pieces of information from a server. I had it do this in three
separate threads. Is this the type of thing that would benefit from more
than one core?


William,

Probably not. It sounds like the threads would spend an awful lot of
time in an idle state waiting for the IO complete. In this particular
example I'm skeptical that a multicore system would provide a
significant benefit.

But, in general a CPU intensive application written using more than
one thread could benefit from having more than one CPU.

Brian

.

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