Multithreading (computer architecture): Difference between revisions

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'''''Multithreading''''' computers have hardware support to efficiently execute multiple [[thread (computer science)|threads]].

The '''''Multithreading''''' paradigm become more popular as efforts to further exploit [[instruction level parallelism]] have stalled since the late-1990s. This allowed the concept of ''Throughput computing'' to reemerge to prominence from the more speciailizedspecialized field of [[transaction processing]]:

* Even though it is very difficult to further speed up a single thread or single program, most computer systems are actually multi-tasking among multiple threads or programs.

* Techniques that would allow speedup of the overall system throughput of all tasks would be a meaningful performance gain.