
For some programs, the arrival of multi-core processing power has made little difference to how they operate. Some applications, such as word processors and web browsers, are unable to split process operation over a number of cores and instead pile everything onto just one. Researchers from North Carolina’s State University have come up with a way to break up such programs into different threads, resulting in a 20 percent increase in run speed…
Tags: Efficiency,
Memory,
Processing,
Research,
Software
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