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Author: Bruce Perens
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To: Steve Litt
CC: dng, jonhall80
Subject: Re: [DNG] Piping is an easy way to do multithreading: was mouse driver question
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 3:43 PM Steve Litt <slitt@???>
wrote:

> each process in the pipeline will get its own processor core (or nowadays,
> thread).



They are the old-fashioned processes. Generally much heavier-weight than
threads, but it doesn't matter for this application. If there are enough
CPUs or CPU contexts (hyperthreads), each process in the pipe will get one.