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  • The single-threaded plots devote much attention to the logistics of running a military ship: things like sleep rotations, reassigning personnel and finding time for food, whereas military actions are resolved in mere paragraphs.

    REVIEW: Mike Resnick's Starship Series (Books 1-4) 2009

  • The single-threaded plots devote much attention to the logistics of running a military ship: things like sleep rotations, reassigning personnel and finding time for food, whereas military actions are resolved in mere paragraphs.

    January 2009 2009

  • Twitter was a practically harmless example of what happens when your technology is single-threaded and not backed-up.

    DoS: A Single Point of Failure - Shelly Palmer - MediaBizBloggers 2009

  • The pissant is single-threaded and is deathly afraid that some disturbance will drive them off their pre-determined course.

    Quote Of The Day: Rice Warns Against Planning For Possibility Of Failure 2009

  • This leads co-operative multitasking, which they describe as being able to “program like you are single-threaded”.

    Suttree » Casual Games, Social Software » Stackless Python 2006

  • If you like single-threaded communication, you're in luck.

    iPhone Reality/Sanity Check -- my iWish list 2007

  • I attribute this to the fact that analog systems are in fact generally quite redundant at the 'bit level - there are a lot of atoms/molecules/other basic units operating in parallel - while the digital stuff tends to be more single-threaded.

    Brittle Strategies James Killus 2007

  • I will say that our judgments were not single-threaded.

    CNN Transcript Feb 5, 2004 2004

  • When it comes to benchmarks, the Conquer performs admirably at Linpack, clocking 41MFLOPS in single-threaded processes on its 1GHz single-core processor.

    Ars Technica Casey Johnston 2011

  • The phone blows up Linpack benchmarks, scoring around 52 MFLOPS in single-threaded processes and about 78 MLFOPS in multi-threaded ones.

    Ars Technica Casey Johnston 2012

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