A thought experiment: serial vs parallel(clipperhouse.com)

8 pointsby mwsherman17 anni fa2 comments

A thought experiment: serial vs parallel

http://clipperhouse.com/blog/post/A-thought-experiment-serial-vs-parallel.aspx

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Just look to all of our modern operating systems to see what they try to do to provide "liquid" service. Even on a single processor, tasks are switched frequently to give pseudo parallelism, so that all the tasks can stay responsive (especially important for user interfaces).

Hast17 anni fa

Welcome to the wonderful world of queueing theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queueing_theory).