Subj : Re: Should I use threads?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Scott McPhillips [MVP]
Date : Tue Jun 28 2005 06:35 pm

zipito wrote:
> I think, I will increase the computational speed, if I'll try to use 
> some parallel computations: I want to do my program computing at the 
> same time 5-6 integrals (or even more, if it's able). Can this be done 
> on one-processor running mashine. If yes, can you tell me: should I use 
> threads to do this? Or there is some different abilities?

A one-processor machine will not go faster with threads.  It will go 
slower, because additional time is consumed to schedule and switch the 
threads.  Only one thread at a time executes.

N threads on N processors will run faster.

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Scott McPhillips [VC++ MVP]

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