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From: Tom Chiverton
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] HyperThreading...
On Monday 18 May 2009, Laurence MacNeill wrote:
> Does anyone know if the Flash Player supports HyperThreading?
Applications don't, in general, support or not HT as that's at the O/S level.
Strictly that's true, but other technologies (such as Java) allow multiple
threads of execution and are able to take advantage of HT if they are written
with multiple threads.
Given the availability of multiple cores these days, I'd hope that actionscript
(and the player) would embrace this, though it's MAJOR change in application
development.
The player is single-threaded at the moment so cannot use a second core - as
Tom says. :-(
Paul
> other words, will my program run faster on a CPU that has
> HyperThreading? Or will it not make any difference?
If it's fairly CPU-bound (and nothing else is), it'll probably feel faster
because there's less contention for the CPU resource.
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