Futurism lib (futures in D)

Walter Bright newshound at digitalmars.com
Fri Jan 26 18:11:51 PST 2007


Frits van Bommel wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Kristian Kilpi wrote:
>>> (I think one should, in general, always use thread counts relative to 
>>> the number of hardware threads.)
>>
>> Multithreaded code can speed up computation even on a machine with 
>> only one CPU, because of how I/O blocking works.
> 
> So? You may still want twice as many threads if you've got twice the 
> hardware threads, which is what Kristian was saying.
> "relative to" != "equal to" :p.

Ok.



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