On Wednesday February 11 2009, Larry Stotler wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:12 PM, M Harris <harrismh777@earthlink.net> wrote:
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However, I have found that, at least under linux, that an SMP system can be faster than a single core system that's 50% faster. However, it just depends on what you are doing. If you are watching a tv show and surfing the web, then dual core makes much more sense because the system is more responsive. So, I don't recommend any single core systems anymore. Even the Celerons are almost all DC. Only the Sempron is single core anymore.
I think that speaks to the fact that there's a good bit of latent parallelizability at the overall system operation level for what constitutes typical mixes of activities, both those overtly and explicitly commanded by the human user and the plethora of behind-the-scenes processes that interact and coorindate to provide the user's overall computing experience. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org