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Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.7.0 Subject: Re: Parallel processing Content-language: en-US To: zsh-users@zsh.org References: <20220327113705.1799@sachi> From: Ray Andrews In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-Seq: 27633 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: On 2022-03-27 12:06, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 11:37 AM jdh wrote: >> So that beginners do not get the wrong idea I wish to make clear that Unix based systems are not designed to, and can not do parallel processing. > If you're going to bring this up, would you please clarify further? > The Linux kernel has supported symmetric multiprocessing since 1996. > Yes.  My understanding is only at the casual level, but I've taken it that multi-core CPUs are specifically designed to facilitate multiprocessing and that Linux/Unix were and are way ahead of Windows in taking advantage of that and have been for a whole long time.  Which is why M$'s own servers run Linux.