Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
: The second CPU is not used at all if the an application does not use the
: so-called "Multiprocessing API" to create multiple threads.

  A more important issue would be if the OS can distribute several different
programs among the processors. That is, if I run two CPU-intensive programs,
does the OS run one of the with one processor and the other program in the
other processor?
  I think that's the most usual use of multitasking.

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):_;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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