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The title was confusing to me. This has nothing to do with sharing a core by context switching i.e. giving multiple programs a timeslot on the same core. It's
by pyentropy 6y ago
The title was confusing to me. This has nothing to do with sharing a core by context switching i.e. giving multiple programs a timeslot on the same core.
It's about HyperThreading/SMT, a feature that allows multiple programs to run in the same instruction cycle by using idle execution units within a shared core.