Re: thread memory size



David Schwartz wrote:
On Oct 9, 12:11 am, Jan Helgesen <s...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The benefit is simple -- you don't have to share memory. And that is
the *only* benefit to prohibiting the use of other synchronization
mechanisms.

Exactly :)

So why are you asking about threads which do have to share memory?

Sorry but that's not the paragraph i intended to comment on. I forgot to
remove the latter part of that paragraph

Let me re-comment it again:

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That is a *cost* that only makes sense to pay if there's some
corresponding *benefit*.

Exactly :) and that is the one benefit I am talking about. It allows
massive parallelisation of code, which is an enormous benefit. That
benefit can be utilised when computers move to more and more cores per
processors, instead of the old game that was about more and more
kilo/mega/giga hertz.
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But as I said we are off track in this discussion, please see my other
post to you, which should help us focus the discussion on the real
matter again.

regards

Jan
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