Re: Regarding Dual core processors

Chris Hills wrote:

Well in most multi tasking systems there is only 1 MCU. And you time slice. So many miliseconds per task to give the illusion of lots os things happening at once.

The idea with the PC dual, quad core etc is that you really can have several tasks in parallel. It can give a speed increase.

It is great fun to talk to Windows programmers who think that because they have been "multi tasking" and "threading" for years that multicore processors will just work. They will soon find out that the fact there was only one real processor covered up a lot of concurrency and synchronization bugs.
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