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To: tejek who wrote (262323)11/27/2005 4:18:02 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1573279
 
"What does it do.......forge rivers while showing the latest Harry Potter movie?"

The truly amusing thing is that the current available games are single threaded. So they use only a small fraction of the available CPU power. While multi-threaded applications makes a lot of sense, they are very difficult to program and debug. In addition, few programmers are able to think parallel enough to easily handle multiple threads.