Multi-processing primer
These are legitimate questions, and of course the same questions have been asked about multi-core processors in smartphones. Before we look at the question of multi-core processors and Android apps, let’s take a step back and look at multi-core technology in general.
Computers are very good a doing one thing. You want to calculate the first 100 million prime numbers? No problem, a computer can loop round and round all day crunching those numbers. But the moment you want a computer to do two things at once, like calculating those primes while running a GUI so you can also browse the web, then suddenly everything becomes a bit more difficult.