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Multithreading Taxonomy

 Explicit (concur. executed threads of the same or different programs)

It aims at increasing the performance of a multiprogramming workload

 Non-Blocking Multithreading (Threaded & Large-Grain. DF)
 Blocked Multithreading
 Interleaving Multithreading
 Simultaneous Multithreading

 Implicit (concur. execute several threads from single seq. program)

It aims at increase the performance of a single program thread

 Threads created dynamically at runtime by the hardware

Minor/No compiler support
Thread level speculation on sequential (single-

threaded) programs

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