Comments by "xybersurfer" (@xybersurfer) on "Program, Interrupted - Computerphile" video.

  1. Anders Jackson i stand corrected. i agree
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  2. yes, i also prefer the idea of accommodating the hardware to fit the conceptual ideas
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  3. if there are multiple threads then there is thread switching, and if your thread was not the one running then it could have missed the signal. it's not so much about doing multiple things at the same time. it's more about the guarantee of not missing a signal. also by introducing multiple threads it becomes very hard to give guarantees about the time it takes the system to respond (a.k.a. real time). which is a lot of times important for embedded devices
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  4. Anders Jackson i know that. and the thought didn't escape me while i was typing it. but as ***** said. it would be silly to introduce a core at least every system that will be interacted with. it doesn't scale
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