[MUD-Dev] Two threads forced to one CPU? (was: Collecting ideas for a MUD server...)

[Wesley W. Terpstra]

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On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 21:54:37, Rahul Sinha <rsinha at glue.umd.edu> wrote:
> hear hear! keep in mind, multiple threads ought not seperate themselves on
> seperate cpus due to cache coherency issues (depends on your OS if they
> do) and either way, the only reason to have threads is to eliminate wait
> for blocking operations.

What?! You're saying if I spawn two threads and having both work nonstop
the OS won't put them on different CPUs?

I thought this was the whole point to multi-threading?
Please explain.

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