On Saturday 02 June 2007 10:16, Frank Fiene wrote:
On Samstag, 2. Juni 2007, Randall R Schulz wrote:
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Programmatically, a dual-core CPU is very similar to two single-core CPUs. On recent Linux kernels, even a HyperThreading CPU looks like two separate CPUs at the user level.
Not for forking processes like in a Linux environment, HT is not very good on this issue. ;-)
I'm not commenting on the performance characteristics of dual-CPU vs. dual-core vs. HT, just the fact that the Linux kernel papers over the differences, for the most part, merging them all under the SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) rubric.
Thx. Frank
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