2006-07-25 17:21:17 · 4 answers · asked by Z_A 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Multi-threading is useful when you have
a. Processor support like Hyperthreading/multi-core processors and you want to exploit them
b. Provide a quick response esp for GUI/Networking apps.
On single-core processors w/o such support and for applications where data-processing loops take a much longer time than where I/O is required, multi-threading is not of much use. For applications which do not have inherent parallelism, it is not worthwhile to even think of multi-threading as the context switch and synchronization overheads will be more as compared to a non-multithreaded implementation.
2006-07-26 02:20:48 · answer #1 · answered by swami060 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi
Multithreading will be used in some networking applications where two simultaneous processing done. So for a normal database application there is no need of multithreading...
2006-07-26 00:25:57 · answer #2 · answered by crazynavaneeth 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gaming is best example for Multithreading
2006-07-26 00:37:14 · answer #3 · answered by pradeep24s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The simplest case is GUI application that provides some time-consuming jobs. With single thread, GUI will "hang" until some such job is done.
2006-07-26 00:37:35 · answer #4 · answered by alakit013 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋