Futurism lib (futures in D)
    Frits van Bommel 
    fvbommel at REMwOVExCAPSs.nl
       
    Fri Jan 26 17:06:13 PST 2007
    
    
  
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.
    
    
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