>"Available" being facetious AFAIK ;-)))
>There are WinAPI calls available to declare which/how many cores a process is allowed to run on. But general reccommenedation is to leave own fingers from such things as often the OS performing its job gets better results as handcra/ufted code, unless the machines the code is running on is totally identical.
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>@Greg:
>Unless there is lots of code swapped in and out CPU caches by such MT/MP code, what is the wanted benefit ?
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>curious
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>thomas
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I have implementing the Parallel Fox technique into my FUnit project. Even though the test cases are general short, the overall time of the suite run was lass then if they were ran in a single core only. The machine I used to have (before it was stolen), had 6 cores. The suite allow the user to define if it word use one or more cores. Currently, I am just looking at the Multiple Thread approach. Just being curious as what kind of affect it would provide.

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>>ParallelFox runs on available cores, as per its docs, and our own observations on running applications.
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>>Hank
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>>>>>Curious,
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>>>>>If have a multi-core machine, and run a part of my application using parallel processing technique.
>>>>>The processes are spread across the various cores. This cool. Now if implement multi-threading in the
>>>>>processes, will the multiple threads be ran in the same core that the parallel processing process this running,
>>>>>or will the system delegate the threads to other cores?
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>>>>As I understand it, the whole point of multithreading - well, one of the points - is to allow different processors or cores to share the workload. I am not sure how you implement multithreading in Visual FoxPro, though, since it doesn't have any built-in multithreading capability. At least, none that is exposed to the programmer.
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>>>You are right about VFP being single threaded. But with the help of the VFP community, there are examples of implimenting multi-threading (mtmyvfp by Calvin Hsia) and Parallel Processing (ParallelFox by Joel Leach (?)). I have been adding these features to my FUnit project. I am not sure if the threads are running in on the same core that the parallel processing is running, or spread out to other cores. This would alter the length the of time the test cases take to run.