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From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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The other thing I have noticed is that when I split jobs using threads 
so that I can use several processors, the speed up to the program is far 
less than one might expect - indeed sometimes it even gets slower.

Stephen

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This is probably Amdahl's law.

Simon





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