Network Processor specific Multithreading tradeoffs

Multithreading is a processor technique that can effectively hide long latencies that can occur due to memory accesses, coprocessor operations and similar. While this looks promising, there is an additional hardware cost that will vary with for example the number of contexts to switch to and what te...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boivie, Victor
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för systemteknik 2005
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2940