From: "Paul Ranson" 

With HT the actual multiprocessing PC became much more common. There used
to be a lot of threaded software that appeared to work on a single
processor but failed on a multi. With future dual core HT things will get
even trickier.

Paul

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:42f0d4e1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Some of MS's Channel 9 videos are worthwile, if you can grit your teeth at
> the puffery.  This is more than that.  It explained the current approach
> to time-slicing and locks better than I'd ever heard before.  Now, I'm not
> Tony-level on chip architecture.  You may consider these a bit elementary.
> Start with videos 3 and 4 - they're denser and more worth your time.
>
> I was especially interested in the compare-and-swap hardware instruction
> in avoiding race conditions in multicore, multiple, and other expanded
> processors. I see the software engineer's definition of "race
condition"
> has expanded from what I learned twenty years ago.  I'm worried (g).
>
> I love to see bright people stretch their legs, regardless of who they
> work for (g).

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