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A thought experiment: serial vs parallel
- colonelxc 17y agoJust look to all of our modern operating systems to see what they try to do to provide "liquid" service. Even on a single processor, tasks are switched frequently to give pseudo parallelism, so that all the tasks can stay responsive (especially important for user interfaces).
- Hast 17y agoWelcome to the wonderful world of queueing theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queueing_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queueing_theory).