This is a complicated problem. However I do not believe that multi-threading is a real solution for reasons that I explained on another forum some time ago.
The short version of what I said there is that Moore's law is looking to add cores faster than SMP can scale, at which point we'll go to NUMA inside of a CPU. And once we go to NUMA, multi-threaded programs don't scale. So while there are some very important niches which can benefit from serious multi-threading, I don't buy the dream of unlimited numbers of cores available to a single multi-threaded application.
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