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Re:Why Skylake CPUs Are Sometimes 50% Slower (2018) by monadic2 on Thursday June 11, 2020 @07:27PM (#23494290)
This only makes sense for prioritizing the performance of individual processes, not scheduling a system of cooperating processes.
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Re:Why Skylake CPUs Are Sometimes 50% Slower (2018) by aflag on Thursday June 11, 2020 @07:56PM (#23494493)
I don't think that's true. Losing a few cycles instead of calling a syscall can be beneficial to the system as a whole.
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