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I don't think it's about long-running vs. short-running. That might be a heuristic, but what really matters is whether there is idle CPU time to be had between

I don't think it's about long-running vs. short-running. That might be a heuristic, but what really matters is whether there is idle CPU time to be had between when you need large zeroed chunks of memory, or even if not, if you have some other performance characteristic you want (e.g. stable, consistent throughput) that would benefit from parallelizing the zeroing instead of having to periodically block.

BeeOnRope 7y ago
Yes, it was just a terse way of putting it: by long running I really mean something that runs more or less indefinitely, usually serving "external" requests, like a server or daemon vs "short running" where I mean something that is triggered to do a specific job: think a compiler or compressor or whatever. Of course you could have short running servers or long running full-CPU processes too. Long/short probably are the