On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
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> Do these ideas require threads in principle? ISTM that there could be
> (additional) process(es) waiting to perform pre-fetching or async io,
> and we could use the usual IPC machinary to talk between them...
>
Right. I use threads because it is easy to write simulation program :-)
Regards,
Qingqing