Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having more than one thread of execution. Used of applications.
- adjective Supporting multithreaded applications. Used of programming languages.
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- adjective computing Of an
application program , having more than onethread ofexecution ; thus takingadvantage ofmulti-tasking operating systems andhardware . - adjective computing Of a
programming language , able to produce such programs
Etymologies
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Examples
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Not all programs can take advantage of so-called multithreaded chips, but some customers are reporting impressive results.
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Happily, Gmail still can be used while you're creating the cache, because Gears is multithreaded -- in other words, it can walk and chew gum at the same time.
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Not all programs can take advantage of such "multithreaded" chips, but some customers are reporting impressive results.
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"multithreaded" encoders bug I posted a while back is fixed, although brutally!
Doom9's Forum albain 2010
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In the days of LSI-11 (PDP 11 on a board) we had SMP VME cubes running multithreaded Pascal.
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I don't disagree with Jon Stokes when he compares the entire stock market to "a single, very big piece of multithreaded software" (in an essay that will be particularly intriguing to geeks like this writer).
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Automated Greed Factories: How Soulless Banking Is Crushing the Economy RJ 2010
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The 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 includes a quick 1066 MHz front-side bus and 3 MB of L2 cache, providing an optimized, multithreaded architecture for improved multimedia and multitasking performance.
Midnight Sideshow | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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Furthermore, Firefox is already multithreaded, it's just following chrome and moving things out to separate processes for extra security benefits.
Firefox Joining The Multi-Process Movement | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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"This isn't the place for a treatise on multithreaded managed applications," he writes.
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I can put up with the iPhone's "my way or the highway" software model because the small form factor means that even a responsive, multithreaded browser would be difficult to use to choose one example.
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