Multithreading??
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Wow. I was reading this stuff about how great VB .NET is for Game programmign and it says it supports Multithreading. Hmmm. Someone please tell me what this is? Thanks
Haven't you done any courses in Computer Science. I sure threads were one of the subjects covered. Anyways... An Application that is running is usually refered as a process. Within that process, or any process for that matter, are pieces of related codes, or Threads. Thus, a process is made up of one to many pieces of thread. Now, in VB6, multithreading is not supported since your code gets executed step by step. A thread will have to wait for another thread to finish before it can execute. This can lead to your resources being wasted. An example of this is a thread that is writing to disk. When this thread is executing, the CPU is idle when it could be doing something. The concept of multithreading is that the CPU should always be doing something, to fully utilize it. VB.Net allows you to execute more than one thread at the same time, thus fully utilizing your app. For more imformation, try buying a Comp Sci book. I'm sure their explanation is much, much better.;P Notorious SMC
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