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To: Dale J. who wrote (57446)6/7/1998 5:12:00 PM
From: Steve Porter  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Dale,

SMP is only valuable if you have more than one "heavy" thread or task to run. If I have an app that has one main thread that does all the work SMP is USELESS.

There are times when one fast CPU is better than 4 cpu's that are 1/3 as fast.

Steve
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