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<LI><em>From</em>: Marc Bowden <<A HREF="mailto:ryumo#merit,edu">ryumo#merit,edu</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:42:40 -0500</LI>
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--On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 1:40 AM -0800 "Wesley W. Terpstra"
<terpstra#iota,dhs.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 21:54:37, Rahul Sinha <rsinha#glue,umd.edu>
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>> hear hear! keep in mind, multiple threads ought not seperate
>> themselves on seperate cpus due to cache coherency issues (depends
>> on your OS if they do) and either way, the only reason to have
>> threads is to eliminate wait for blocking operations.
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> What?! You're saying if I spawn two threads and having both work
> nonstop the OS won't put them on different CPUs?
>
Some might. With Windows NT it randomly assigns threads to a CPU
until one or the other fills up. Go fig.
> I thought this was the whole point to multi-threading?
> Please explain.
>
The point is that you can do two things and have them *look* like
they're happening at the same time.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00764" HREF="msg00764.html">[MUD-Dev] Two threads forced to one CPU? (was: Collecting ideas for a MUD server...)</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00771" HREF="msg00771.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Two threads forced to one CPU? (was: Collecting ideas for a MUD server...)</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00776" HREF="msg00776.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Two threads forced to one CPU? (was: Collecting ideas for a MUD server...)</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00781" HREF="msg00781.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Two threads forced to one CPU? (was: Collecting ideas for a MUD server...)</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00755" HREF="msg00755.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Collecting ideas for a MUD server... (fwd)</A></strong>,
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