whats faster, initialize component, or form load?

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Jon,

I agree with you in normal human way when we talk about an organisation,
however it are more in a way side by side running processes not "one"
controlled by "one" program. I made in the time of the mainframe more
programs for it using a queue. (Therefore multiprogramming) There were only
very few computers which could do that. IBM by instance could not, they had
to use MultiTasking (See my Wikipedia link) in those days.

We (you and me) a parallel functioning entities, our hart is going, our eyes
are looking, the human brain is still better in that way as any computer.

But that is only the way I understood it.

Cor

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I agree with you in normal human way when we talk about an organisation,
however it are more in a way side by side running processes not "one"
controlled by "one" program. I made in the time of the mainframe more
programs for it using a queue. (Therefore multiprogramming) There were only
very few computers which could do that. IBM by instance could not, they had
to use MultiTasking (See my Wikipedia link) in those days.

The important thing is that overall, a series of tasks need to be
completed. Whether those are run as multiple OS processes, threads
within the same process, even multiple processes on multiple machines
is in some senses irrelevant - the important thing is whether the
resources available are being used efficiently by dealing with
multiple tasks at the same time where appropriate. Those tasks could
be "read block from disk" running in parallel with "do some
computation" or they could be "perform two web service calls to
different servers at the same time". Both are examples of parallelism.

Jon

 

[Guest]

......so yeah thanks for the input guys. lol

Bull. They were/are marketing terms. The primary thing that
distinguishes a "mainframe" from a "minicomputer" is their relative
physical size, which is hardly a "technical" attribute.


My "focus on the english language" pertains only to the fact that I have
no way of understanding what a particular post was meant to say. I am
not, unlike certain people around here, trying to make a disagreement just
for the sake of disagreement. I am trying to help the person understand
that whatever point he is trying to make has simply gone uncommunicated,
due to the grammatical problems with the post.

Pete