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Is it true that, cpus can actually only do 1 thing at once,
and just give the illusion of multitasking?
Is it true that, cpus can actually only do 1 thing at once,
and just give the illusion of multitasking?
Originally Posted by http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Intel-i7-nehalem-cpu,2041-3.html Nehalem... is still capable of macro-ops fusion and so offers a theoretical maximum throughput of 4+1 x86 instructions per cycle. |
Originally Posted by chatch15117 ![]() Actually there are multiple instructions executed per clock cycle, even on single core and single threaded cpus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_cycle |
Hyper-threading works by duplicating certain sections of the processor... This allows a hyper-threading processor to appear as two "logical" processors to the host operating system, |