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Re: dual core?
- From: One Angry User <angry at lusers dot org>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:33:57 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: dual core?
- References: <20060724153242.GA17358@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
- Reply-to: Blaaab Babble Boogle Bop <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
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On a breezy Monday, the 24th day of July, 2006, Christopher Faylor's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:
> If a hippo falls on a dual core processor in the forest will it make
> twice as much noise as if it fell on a normal processor? How about a
> hyperthreaded processor? Will it make maybe 1.3X the amount of noise?
It depends on whether the processor had its pins up or down.
OAU