Any Questions about or Suggestions for the next release?

[Steve Lamb]

Tuesday, August 31, 1999, 12:53:20 PM, Agents wrote:
> Of course it would not necessarily shorten the time required to complete
> certain tasks by PMMail/2 but I never said that.

    *cough*

Tuesday, August 31, 1999, 7:48:42 AM, Agents wrote:
> 2. More multithreading. The developers need to test the system on a slow
> computer, i.e., 66 MHz 486, and under normal operating conditions, i.e.,
> folders with large numbers of messages in them, and add multithreading
> wherever things take more than 0.1 s to complete, i.e, the common decision
> point for whether to add multithreading or not. It is not acceptable to use
> 200 MHz+ Pentium as a benchmark machine.

    "...and add multithreading wherever things take more than 0.1 s to
complete..."

    I don't know about you, but from where I sit, that sounds like a reference
that whenever things are going too slow, just throw threads at it and, hence,
shorten the time it takes for the task to complete.



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