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Old May 22nd, 2008   #15 (permalink)
BigIg
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Not to go too off topic, but if you design an application that is expressly designed to use multicore, and contains no code for what to do if the end user has a single core, how would this be handled? Would it just use threads?

I'm not a programmer, but this kind of interests me.
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