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A better title would be "Our Brains Are Not Multi-core' - so multitasking, just like multi-threading on a single core CPU, will incur a penalty of context switc
by m12k 7y ago
A better title would be "Our Brains Are Not Multi-core' - so multitasking, just like multi-threading on a single core CPU, will incur a penalty of context switching, cache misses, and so on.
- PyroLagus 7y agoLooking at split-brain patients, it does seem like each hemisphere is a "core" which communicate via the corpus callosum. So you could say that our brains are multi-core.