[TriLUG] Multithreaded Apps

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Ed Hill wrote:
> All applications can benefit from multiple CPUs/cores when you have
> more than two running at a time that are (even somewhat) CPU-bound.


They don't even have to be cpu-bound.  Every modern Linux distro has a
lot of cruft running in the background all the time.  With more cores
you have less context-switching.

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