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General Discussion / Re: Why do Nvidia cards run Blockland shaders better than AMD cards

« on: July 04, 2014, 01:08:52 PM »

i get how it works but im still confused on these definitions

so you have a single core with a single thread.
you cant run multiple threads at the same time. but isnt the process of calling another thread after the previous one stops still called multithreading? even though they are not running simultaneously? or is there another definition?

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Off Topic / Re: Accidentally managed to cut my finger yesterday

« on: July 04, 2014, 12:43:31 PM »

be thankful it wasnt your richard

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Off Topic / Re: Going to camp on the 6th!

« on: July 04, 2014, 12:37:58 PM »

remember black guy always dies first in scary forest movies

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General Discussion / Re: Why do Nvidia cards run Blockland shaders better than AMD cards

« on: July 04, 2014, 12:36:52 PM »

You are thinking about HTT, which would in theory work on Blockland since it's the same CPU core.
However the only CPU I know that made any valuable use for the HTT was Intel Pentium IV. (Since HTT is made by Intel so yeah).
In other regards, Blockland does not however support multi core.

then what are these people talking about?

Of course it can be done on a single-processor system, and in fact it's much easier that way. It works the same way as running multiple processes -- the kernel, via a timer interrupt or other similar mechanism, suspends one, saving its machine state, and replacing that by the previously-saved state of another -- the only difference being that two threads of the same process share the same virtual memory space, making the task-switch much more efficient.

Multi-threading on multi-processor systems is actually much more difficult, since you have issues of simultaneous access to memory from multiple cpus/cores, and all the nasty memory synchronization issues that arise out of that.

Yes, multi-threading is useful in a single core. If one thread in an application gets blocked waiting for something (say data from the network card or waiting for the disk to write data), the CPU can switch to another thread to keep working.

BeOS was written with pervasive multithreading in mind, even in a time of single core processors. The result was a very responsive OS, though a rather difficult OS to program for.

Yes you can do multithreading on a single processor system.

In multi-processor system , multiple threads execute , simultaneously on different cores. Eg- If there are two threads and two cores , then each thread would run on individual core.

In a single-processor system, multiple threads execute , one after the other or wait until one thread finishes or is preempted by the OS , depending on the thread priority and the OS policy.But the running threads , gives an illusion that they run simultaneous , relative to the required application response time of the User space application.

Time Comparison(Example):

if two threads take 10us each to execute, then on a 2 processor system , the net time take is 10us

if two threads take 10us each to execute, then on a 1 processor system , the net time take is 20us

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General Discussion / Re: Why do Nvidia cards run Blockland shaders better than AMD cards

« on: July 04, 2014, 12:29:43 PM »

I don't think you know what multithreaded means...

which part? as far as i know you can multithread on a single core.

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Off Topic / Re: Going to camp on the 6th!

« on: July 04, 2014, 12:21:08 PM »

dont drown

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General Discussion / Re: Why do Nvidia cards run Blockland shaders better than AMD cards

« on: July 04, 2014, 12:09:58 PM »

How are you so sure? Draw calls are draw calls, if your cpu is maxed out somewhere then you'll absolutely benefit from multiple execution threads

i meant multi core type of thing

blockland is multithreaded as far as logic goes. i mean we do have a GUI on top of the 3D game. client connections and other things happening at once.
i dont think badspot made the game so primitive not to handle a bit of stress.

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Drama / Re: NuclearBear = stuff

« on: July 04, 2014, 11:42:16 AM »

i would ban for mute avoiding too
but at the same time i wouldnt be a dumbass
hint;

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and

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Off Topic / Re: Post real life pictures of yourself.

« on: July 04, 2014, 11:29:08 AM »

i think the toughest brand of sunglasses in the world is Hercules.

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General Discussion / Re: Why do Nvidia cards run Blockland shaders better than AMD cards

« on: July 04, 2014, 11:19:10 AM »

i dont even think it needs multithreading

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Off Topic / Re: Planr is going on a cruise!

« on: July 04, 2014, 11:11:00 AM »

leaving post BAN

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General Discussion / Re: Why do Nvidia cards run Blockland shaders better than AMD cards

« on: July 04, 2014, 10:40:01 AM »

yes

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Off Topic / Re: Post real life pictures of yourself.

« on: July 04, 2014, 10:37:52 AM »

somebody say gotta blast?

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Add-Ons / Re: Do you miss RTB?

« on: July 04, 2014, 10:30:24 AM »

4 backups only? by now id expect more than 10
come on step it up

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Off Topic / Re: Post real life pictures of yourself.

« on: July 04, 2014, 10:23:50 AM »

That is a common misconception, in truth girls are always hotter before puberty.

maybe if you suffer from a brain illness