Am 11.05.2013 um 18:07 schrieb Bill Waggoner:
> This shows, as I believe, that I have one CPU and 4 cores and yet Fink
> reports that I have 8 CPUs/Cores when I configure it. Is it, perhaps,
> counting Threads (or some such) instead of Cores?
Due to the *hyper-threading* feature (HTT) each real CPU core counts for two.
This is simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) in hardware. It is valuable because
the time to fetch data from slow memory or after a cache miss can be used for
computation.
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