From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14070 invoked by alias); 24 Jul 2006 17:34:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 14063 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Jul 2006 17:34:02 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ACCESS1.CIMS.NYU.EDU (HELO access1.cims.nyu.edu) (128.122.81.155) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:34:00 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by access1.cims.nyu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6OHXvSn007552 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:33:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:34:00 -0000 From: One Angry User Reply-To: Blaaab Babble Boogle Bop To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: dual core? In-Reply-To: <20060724153242.GA17358@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Message-ID: References: <20060724153242.GA17358@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q3/txt/msg00043.txt.bz2 On a breezy Monday, the 24th day of July, 2006, Christopher Faylor's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes: > If a hippo falls on a dual core processor in the forest will it make > twice as much noise as if it fell on a normal processor? How about a > hyperthreaded processor? Will it make maybe 1.3X the amount of noise? It depends on whether the processor had its pins up or down. OAU