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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (114199)6/5/2000 12:11:00 AM
From: milo_morai  Respond to of 1575704
 
We LOVE DIRK!

Dirk Meyer
Vice President, Engineering,
Computation Products Group


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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (114199)6/5/2000 1:06:00 AM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1575704
 
Dan,

Running two threads on two processors at half speed can be faster than running two threads on one processor at full speed.

The reason is that you have twice as much cache, and fewer context switches. All versions of Windows going out into the future support multithreading.

Scumbria