Am 07.04.2012 18:29, schrieb Sieghard: > > I've bought a 4 core CPU with the replacement board, and it was rather > cheap for that matter. That's become the trend, not higher frequencies, as > silicon cannot handle them well beyond a few GHz, but more parallelism, > more processor cores dividing the work among them. 8 cores are available, > development machines use even more, and research machines with several > hundred cores _on one chip_ are already commonplace. Probabely even your > cell phone has a multicore processor... > I wonder what is the benefit of massive multithreading if we should not use the necessary synchronization operations because they are too costly. ;-) Have a look into FPC RTL how many "if multithread then" exist before calling an interlocked operation.
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