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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Making the word bigger doesn't mean there's more threads per, it just reduces the number of calls to complete some kinds of ops (and something about RAMing busses into each other and... cache locations? idk I'm sleepy)

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The double deckers are an example of a ready-made solution in the original language's standard library, the lower one is getting multithreading working through the C ABI bindings, using some 3rd party solution, all while multithreading a lot of other tasks in the application.

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 19 hours ago

nah, then each bus’s beginning and end would be restarting the whole program… the first picture should be a five lane freeway at rush hour

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I can live with that. Well done!