Re:Multi-core scaling: it’s not multi-threaded
by robertgraham on Thursday February 21, 2013 @06:55PM
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My desktop is 6 hyperthreaded cores (12 "cores" total).
It's a general principle of why mobile phone CPUs aren't putting a lot more cores in their devices, and why they didn't go the Atom route of hyperhreading: code on cellphones fail to take advantage of the additional cores.
It's a general principle of why mobile phone CPUs aren't putting a lot more cores in their devices, and why they didn't go the Atom route of hyperhreading: code on cellphones fail to take advantage of the additional cores.