| Ka-pi96 said: Dumb question but... what do multiple cores in processors even do? Sure an 18 core processor sounds a lot, but how much does it actually increase performance? |
If a program is compiled/written for parallellization in you split the program into 18 pieces and run them in parallell and in theory the program will be executed/preform the task at hand in 1/18 of the time it would take if it ran on a single core (in reality you will probably run the task/execute the program in maybe 1/10 of the time compared to runing it on a single core).
Or you can run 18 different programs at once completley uninterupted each using it's own core (of course this is also in theory not taking into account bus witdh memory speeds and other possible bottlenecks outside of the CPU)
