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Re:Zoomquilt 2 (2007) by pmiller2 on Monday December 28, 2020 @06:54AM (#25558528)
Big deal. That's literally why you've got 3 more cores.
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Re:Zoomquilt 2 (2007) by TonyTrapp on Monday December 28, 2020 @07:17AM (#25558621)
With that logic, you can never run more than 4 applications at once. The point is that for what it does, it shouldn't even be close to utilizing a full CPU core on a modern machine.
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Re:Zoomquilt 2 (2007) by pmiller2 on Monday December 28, 2020 @09:09AM (#25559239)
Well, for that matter, for what it does, it shouldn't even exist.
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Re:Zoomquilt 2 (2007) by wolco2 on Monday December 28, 2020 @08:25AM (#25559004)
Huge deal not everyone is running 4 cores.
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Re:Zoomquilt 2 (2007) by pmiller2 on Monday December 28, 2020 @09:08AM (#25559233)
Core i5 first generation came out in 2009 with 4 cores: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i5_processo...
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Re:Zoomquilt 2 (2007) by xxs on Monday December 28, 2020 @04:15PM (#25563306)
Even with the 3 extra cores for most laptops it means thermal (or power) throttle and likely high memory and cache pressure.
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