Multithreading question

[Darold Higa]

I have done very little research on this topic, but I do know my simulation
has serious performance issues.  I am looking into a new development
platform.  I was told by someone that if I wanted to look into
multithreading, the libraries that I'm building from have to be
multithreading compliant.  Do the Swarm libraries meet this criteria?  I
vaguely recall parallel processing as one possible direction for swarm.

It seems that the two leading contenders hardware wise are Apple desktops
and a P4 system with Hyper Threading, both are multiprocessor setups (albeit
virtual in the P4 case).  Either system would benefit from multithreaded
applications, if I understand correctly.

Is it going to kill me to convert my ObjC Swarm app into a multithreaded
application?  Will I see any real benefits even without making the
application multithreaded?

So many hardware related questions, I apologize.

Darold Higa


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