On Wednesday 17 January 2007 18:04, you wrote: > On 1/17/07, Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 January 2007 17:52, Edward Dunagin wrote: > > > ... > > > > > > hey fellows and gals, this confuses me to no end.<sigh> > > > > > > here is my cat /proc/info > > > > > > processor : 0 > > > ... > > > siblings : 2 > > > ... > > > > > > processor : 1 > > > ... > > > siblings : 2 > > > ... > > > > > > It sure looks like I have 2 processors. > > > > Yes, it does. What's the problem? > > > > > What say you? > > > > What's the question? > > It's a Pentium 4 that i bought almost 2 years ago and before > duo was mentioned. So HOW do I have a Pentium 4 with 2 > cpu's?
It's a HyperThreading CPU. A half-hearted shot at a dual-core CPU. In a dual-core CPU there's a 100% complete pairing of all the circuitry that makes up a CPU (though they share the level 2 cache). In a HyperThreading CPU not all of the CPU hardware is present twice, hence there is less available parallelism. I don't know the details, but a plausible example would be that two concurrent integer multiplies could be occurring but two concurrent double-precision floating-point multiplies could not take place. > Peace...................ed Peace. Hah! If humans wanted it, they could have it... Hmmm... I'm watching the season premier of "24"... > - > Edward Dunagin-Dunigan-Dunnigan Got Dunnigan? RRS --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
