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From: Jack Lloyd <lloyd@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Unexpected side effect of GCC 4
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:51:17
Message-Id: 20061106124912.GI5921@randombit.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Unexpected side effect of GCC 4 by "Hemmann
1 On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 01:05:31PM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
2
3 > lets ask the other way round. Why should it speed up anything to have X>number
4 > of cores? Instead of a single thread per core, compiling happily, you have
5 > two or more competing for one core and regularly kick out each others data
6 > from the cache.
7
8 To account for I/O wait states
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