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On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Buck Calabro wrote: > >I'm unsure of the capabilities of *new* RPG programs > >to take advantage of multi-threading. > > Don't confuse multi-threading with the ability of OS400 to dispatch a job > across multiple processors. Database operations especially can be > dispatched across multiple physical processors without worrying about Yes, you are referring to scheduling. Multi-CPU systems gain benefit because more processes can be scheduled at once. Like applications and database both executing simultaneously. No threading necessary for that. > creating threads. The obverse is also true - an HLL program cannot be told > to execute thread A on processor 4. OS400 deals with that. I believe this is not true on other systems. On linux I think you can say "run this process only on processor 1". You might be able to do the same on NT. James Rich james@eaerich.com
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