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Article #261Re: Dual processors ?
From: Christopher Browne
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 03:51
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The world rejoiced as George Bell <MasterofTimeADim@netscape.net> wrote:
> No, it couldn't possibly be any slower.
Sure, it could. When there are 2 CPUs, they have some added
coordination effort that isn't required when there is only one CPU.
Coordination comes at a cost.
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From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,aus.ads.forsale.computers.used
Subject: Re: Dual processors ?
Date: 5 Jan 2003 03:51:27 GMT
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