multithreaded
- adjective
- /ˌmʌltiˈθrɛdɪd/
- Specialized
- This paper describes the microarchitecture of a multithreaded PowerPC processor and its memory system that has been optimized for server workloads.
- multithreaded processor
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Multithreaded programming is notoriously difficult and error-prone, so the challenge is to invent techniques that will make it easier.
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This can complicate the debugging of multithreaded systems by changing the thread-interleaving pattern and obscuring the problem.
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As described in Section 4, the physical implementation of some of these registers is unique to multithreaded designs.
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Reasoning about multithreaded programs is still hard, but without data races, it's not as hard as people often claim.
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In a multithreaded processor, the processor holds the state of several tasks/threads.
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This paper describes the microarchitecture of the RS64 IV, a multithreaded PowerPC (R) processor, and its memory system.
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So far as I can tell, none of the PLC vendors have offered a true high-level programming language/environment with multithreaded hard real-time.
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The observation that cache misses were becoming a very large portion of the execution time led to the investigation of multithreaded hardware as a way to execute useful instructions during cache misses.
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The multithreaded application allows users to edit photos while rendering videos at the same time.
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With a multithreaded processor, several tasks can be completed concurrently, boosting overall efficiency.
Synonyms
Able to do several tasks at the same time
Happening at the same time as another thing
Using several parts of a computer program to run at the same time
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Etymology
The word multithreaded combines multi- 'many' and thread 'a single line of work', like a sewing thread or a small task. In computing it means many small 'threads' run at the same time, so a program can do many tasks together.