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manyThreadsAreBetterThanOne (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by alphacyberranger to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Umm, queueing is standard practice particularly when a task is performance intensive and needs limited resources.

Basically any programming language using any kind of asynchronous runtime is using queues in their scheduler, as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Could be I was not clear when I wrote performance, I am talking about High Performance Computing, where you want to spend all CPU cycles on solving your problem. While taking Amdal's Law into account. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Ah gotcha, fair enough. Definitely depends on the workload. If you have compute you want to dedicate to solely to a single task, have at it.