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> What if a couple cores are busy If you don't pin them to cores, the OS is still free to assign threads to cores as it pleases. Assuming the scheduler is some
by chmod775 2y ago
> What if a couple cores are busy
If you don't pin them to cores, the OS is still free to assign threads to cores as it pleases. Assuming the scheduler is somewhat fair, threads will progress at roughly the same rate.
- Dylan16807 2y agoI would not assume it's sufficiently fair to make that a good algorithm. Even a small bias could turn a 5 minute calculation into a 6 or 7 minute calculation as the stragglers finish up.