> On Mar 31, 2017, at 5:32 PM, Michael Schnell <mschn...@lumino.de> wrote:
>
> Regarding the view of the application (disregarding execution speed) or of
> the application programmer, there is no difference between real ("Hardware")
> and virtual (e.g. threads) parallelism. These dirty basics need to be handled
> by the software and hardware infrastructure.
>
> The use of real (e.g. multi CPU) parallelism that the application allows for
> being divided into multiple parallel "Threads". his fact given Hardware
> parallelism can speed up the execution, while even virtual parallelism allows
> for improving the latency of definable parts the application.
I’m not understanding how parallelism could apply to anything besides breaking
down a task so that it can run on multiple hardware compute units.
Why would you ever break a task into 100 threads when you could just run it one
thread?
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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