Multithreading - What's it Mean to Developers?

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 14, 2005 @05:40AM from the the-power-of-the-sun dept.

sysadmn writes "Yet another reason not to count Sun out: Chip Multithreading. CMT, as Sun calls it, is the use of hardware to assist in the execution of multiple simultaneous tasks - even on a single processor. This excellent tutorial on Sun's Developer site explains the technology, and why throughput has become more important than absolute speed in the enterprise. From the intro: Chip multi-threading (CMT) brings to hardware the concept of multi-threading, similar to software multi-threading. ... A CMT-enabled processor, similar to software multi-threading, executes many software threads simultaneously within a processor on cores. So in a system with CMT processors, software threads can be executed simultaneously within one processor or across many processors. Executing software threads simultaneously within a single processor increases a processor's efficiency as wait latencies are minimized. "

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Re:Count Them Out? by dmh20002 · 2005-03-14 07:11 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Who has counted Sun out? How about the stock market? Anyone in this thread who really likes Sun should go buy some of their very cheap stock ($4.43, down from $60.00 in 2001) and make a zillion on their comeback.

put some of that in your social security personal account!