>> threads are assigned to cores when they are started >Do they? I thought the normal behaviour was for cores to pick any available thread to run, so core migr

>> threads are assigned to cores when they are started >Do they? I thought the normal behaviour was for cores to pick any available thread to run, so core migration is quite normal. The CPU and its cores know very little about threads, threads are a figment of the OS. >Sorry, how exactly does it follow from the previous? You seem to have omitted the other half of your syllogism Syllogism would perhaps be a intuitive word to use, why is this? What happened to you?