On Nov 3, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> Le 2011-11-03 à 15:32:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
> 
>> Threading is not the only way to do concurrency.  Think of all of those 
>> objects in your patch, they are all running in parallel.  And you had to do 
>> nothing to make sure that they run in parallel, don't block each other, sync 
>> up, etc.
> 
> Are you talking about Pd ?
> 
> (you surely are not)

It is only recently that threads started to run at actually the same time, and 
that is still not a guaranteed thing.  So yes, we experience apps running "at 
the same time" but for the most part, there is a lot of time slicing involved, 
just like Pd.  There is only one arm on the hard disk heads still, for example.

.hc

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