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Radical New Discovery Could Double The Speed of Existing Computers - simultaneous and heterogeneous multithreading (www.msn.com)

submitted 8 months ago by christophski to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Does anyone know more about this? Sounds like distributing tasks to other processors that are not really designed for the job? Articles are making it out to be a miracle and not sure whether to believe it

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[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Also, it's not even a novel idea.

OpenMP has been around for over 20 years, it's just a lot less "magical".

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

macOS has been doing something similar for years with something Apple calls Grand General Dispatch