What is multi-threading?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Runningbear, Feb 19, 2003.

  1. Multi-threading is way for the operating system to do multiple things at the same time efficiently. Multi-threading is often more efficient than running e.g. multiple programs at the same time (assuming that the same "end result" was produced)

    New P4s has special hardware to make multi-threading especially efficient. The best application of this I can think of would be Java, which uses multi-threading extensively.
     
    #11     Feb 19, 2003
  2. #12     Feb 19, 2003