Re: Multi Threading

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From: Kiran Jain (KiranJain_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 23:53:04 -0700

Thanks Andrew.
My aim is not to hack the passwords. Being an administrator of the system,
spending time on something like this will be a waste for me.
reason for this post was to learn multithread.
Also can Something like this is possible that my program resides on the
server or some common location and uses power of other computers on the
Network to accomplish the task assigned? thus having multiprocessors :?)

Also can u put some focus on the algorithm i have used? because it cannot go
beyond certain length of the string (9Characters only.)
Thanks again.

"Andrew Faust" wrote:

> "Kiran Jain" <KiranJain@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message
> news:2665E395-8424-4200-9493-D40EAEEAEFDF@microsoft.com...
>
> > Is there any way where in my program would use CPU power
> > optimally to speed
> > up the process? I have heard about multithreading, but am
> > totally unaware of
> > how to use it. does any body have any step by step guide or any
> > link to step
> > by step guide to achieve this.
>
> Two things.
>
> First off VB doesn't handle multi-threading very well. You have
> to jump through a lot of wierd hoops to the point where I don't
> think it's worth the effort to try and write multi-threaded apps
> in VB.
>
> Second. Using multi-threading in a single processor system won't
> necessarily speed up your app. In a single processor app, the CPU
> can really only be working on one operation at a time, so running
> multi-threaded really doesn't buy you anything. However, if you
> were to take the same multi-threaded app and run it on a 2 CPU
> system, then it is possible you could get near twice the speed
> out of it.
>
> Andrew Faust
>
>
>

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