Since we were not asked to participate in the beta test, we can't tell you much about the beta; but things must have gone fairly smoothly, because on November 15th, Microsoft rolled out Xbox Live to the masses.
Poor testing and pervasive bugs have never stopped MS from releasing anything. Looks like wishful thinking on the reviewers part.
True, however the feat is still quite impressive. By making the creation and destruction of threads cheaper, it frees developers from having to worry so much about the overall system impact when spawning threads.
For instance, because of the expense many applications use thread pools, which is simply a bunch of idle threads that sit around doing nothing, waiting for work to do. These idle threads still take up system resources even though there not actually using CPU. Not to mention the extra work the developers have do to make the thread pools work for there applications.
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Since we were not asked to participate in the beta test, we can't tell you much about the beta; but things must have gone fairly smoothly, because on November 15th, Microsoft rolled out Xbox Live to the masses.
Poor testing and pervasive bugs have never stopped MS from releasing anything. Looks like wishful thinking on the reviewers part.
Oh come on! Their only crime was breaking the law.
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True, however the feat is still quite impressive. By making the creation and destruction of threads cheaper, it frees developers from having to worry so much about the overall system impact when spawning threads.
For instance, because of the expense many applications use thread pools, which is simply a bunch of idle threads that sit around doing nothing, waiting for work to do. These idle threads still take up system resources even though there not actually using CPU. Not to mention the extra work the developers have do to make the thread pools work for there applications.
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