On Oct 3, 2006, at 5:09 PM, Daniel Stenning wrote:
- If a machine has dual CPUs - either per chip or on a quad mac - do threads that I create inside an RB app always sit inside the same process and CPU ? If so, is there a way of splitting the workload in an app across CPUS ?
Threads are tied to processes, not to CPUs. The Mac OS kernel's scheduler will run a thread timeslice on whichever CPU happens to be available; a single thread is quite likely to bounce from one CPU to the next each time it yields.
The only way to *simultaneously* use more than one processor from a REALbasic app is to write your own thread class using platform- specific declare statements.
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