On 2015-06-14 08:35, Robert M. Münch wrote:
Hi, just to x-check if I have the correct understanding:
fibers = look parallel, are sequential => use 1 CPU core
threads = look parallel, are parallel => use several CPU cores
Is that right?
Yes, however nothing really guarantees multi-threading = multi-core. The
kernel reserves the right and will most likely do everything possible to
keep your process core-local to use caching efficiently.
There's a few ways around that though
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms686247%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/sched_setaffinity.2.html