Multi Thread Me

In the movie “Super Size Me“, Morgan Spurlock goes from healthy to sick in one month of McDonald’s products. I’m reminded of this movie when I hear talk about adapting protocol stacks to use 64 core systems - doing that in the wrong manner, which usually means multithreading them out of their minds. Why Multi-Core? Multi-core processors are very reasonable. It’s a simple way of getting more processor power without raising the processor clock speed (generating more heat and consuming (read more...)

By Ran Arad  |  March 10th, 2008  |  Filed under SDKs
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Memory efficiency, the Tertium Quid

Let’s put one thing out of the way: I hate the term memory consumption. I don’t think it’s relevant to anything. Likewise, I resent the terminology of processor time consumption vs. memory space consumption. Its all in the way you use that processor time or memory space: if use memory inefficiently, you’ll exhaust your cache, and your memory, and maybe start thrashing, and where is your performance now? Instead, I like the term memory efficiency. So now you clutch your (read more...)

By Ran Arad  |  January 8th, 2008  |  Filed under Development
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