On 04/05/14 09:49, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
(*) Physical cores are not necessarily the number reported by the OS due to core hyperthreads. Quad core no hyperthreads, and dual core, two hyperthreads per core, both get reported as four processor systems. However if you benchmark them you get very, very different performance characteristics.
Yup. That bit me with a new laptop the first time I tried parallel programming with D :-)