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CSC301-01 Operating System I
HW-4
Due Oct. 16, 2009, 23:59 via digital drop box
(1) Provide two programming examples in which multithreading does
not
provide better performance
than a single-threaded solution.
(2) Describe the actions taken by a thread library to context switch between user-level threads.
(3) Under what circumstances does a multithreaded solution using multiple kernel threads provide
better performance than a single-threaded solution on a single-processor system?
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Unformatted text preview: (4) Which of the following components of program state are shared across threads in a multithreaded process? a. Register values b. Heap memory c. Global variables d. Stack memory (5) Can a multithreaded solution using multiple user-level threads achieve better performance on a multiprocessor system than on a single-processor system?...
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