Martin D Kealey wrote:
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 18:10, Dave Whipp wrote:
Why do we need to use preemptive threads? If Parrot is a VM, then surely
the threading can be implemented at its level, or even higher.
And what about *lower*? Like down among the CPUs?
I want Perl to run 128 times faster on a 128 CPU machine... now I know
that's not entirely realistic, but it should be able to run at least say
60 times faster.
Amdahl's law applies here: "no amount of paralellism will speed up
an inheirently sequential algorithm"
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Mark Biggar
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