Subject | Re: [Firebird-general] FireBird and Dual Core Processors |
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Author | Lester Caine |
Post date | 2005-06-20T08:52:27Z |
Nigel Weeks wrote:
silicon and is simply another way of packaging multiple processors.
Rather than trying to make a single processor 'look' as if is more than one.
So dual core just brings in all the rules on multiple processors.
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Lester Caine
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L.S.Caine Electronic Services
> Is "Dual core" the swish new name for HyperThreading on Intel chips?Dual core is two (or more!) independent processors on one piece of
silicon and is simply another way of packaging multiple processors.
Rather than trying to make a single processor 'look' as if is more than one.
So dual core just brings in all the rules on multiple processors.
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Lester Caine
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L.S.Caine Electronic Services