On 09/20/2014 01:48 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 2014-09-15 10:19, Marco van de Voort wrote:
My rule of thumb is physical cores + a percentage. (like 10-20%).
Tell that to most developers out there, they clearly don't know that
"rule of thumb". :-)  Mozilla Thunderbird under Win7 shows 47 threads.

Increasing Performance is only one of the purposes you might have in mind when using threads. "Traditionally" threads are just that: unrelated threads of execution in a project, i.e. multitasking-tasks that share some memory.

-Michael
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