multithreading
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- noun
- /ˌmʌltiˈθrɛdɪŋ/
- Specialized
- Table 1 shows the effect of multithreading on the miss rates of the caches and TLB from the measurements.
- throughput increase from multithreading
- simultaneous multithreading
- increase from multithreading
Examples
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By implementing multithreading, the developers were able to improve the responsiveness of the user interface.
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Table 1: Increase in miss rate because of multithreading.
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By keeping the chip area devoted to multithreading small, the cost increase for the processor chip was kept small.
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The more time that is spent waiting for misses, the greater the throughput gain from multithreading.
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When compared with other performance-improvement techniques, multithreading yields an excellent ratio of performance gain to implementation cost.
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To illustrate the potential throughput increase from multithreading, measurements were made of the memcpy operation with and without multithreading enabled.
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The software's performance improved significantly due to multithreading, allowing multiple tasks to run simultaneously.
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In modern programming, multithreading enables efficient execution of tasks, enhancing the overall speed of applications.
Synonyms
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Two or more events happening at the same time
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Two or more actions that happen at the same time
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Two or more things working at the same time
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Two or more programs run at the same time on one computer
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Doing more than one task at the same time on computers or machines
How Concurrent
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- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
multithreading = threading (opaque) = multi + thread + ing
The nearest step is simply adding multi- to threading, but the computing sense of thread is specialized and not easily recoverable from the everyday meaning of thread.
Etymology
Multithreading comes from the parts multi- meaning 'many' and thread meaning 'a single line or strand'. Think of many threads in cloth working at once, and in computing a thread is a small task, so multithreading means running many tasks at the same time.