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Apple Computing Products:
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processor usage in i-mac 2015
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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1735536" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>If you were writing multi-threaded code, you would query for the number of available cores and optimize your program that way, you wouldn't assume 8 on all instances for example. And Nick is correct that very few applications make effective use of the 4 physical cores let alone the additional 4 virtual cores which have a slight performance hit..</p><p></p><p>Where the extra cores come in handy is if you are running virtualization software like VirtualBox, Parallels or VMWare Fusion whereby you could assign the VM 2 cores and still have 6 available for macOS and so on..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1735536, member: 110816"] If you were writing multi-threaded code, you would query for the number of available cores and optimize your program that way, you wouldn't assume 8 on all instances for example. And Nick is correct that very few applications make effective use of the 4 physical cores let alone the additional 4 virtual cores which have a slight performance hit.. Where the extra cores come in handy is if you are running virtualization software like VirtualBox, Parallels or VMWare Fusion whereby you could assign the VM 2 cores and still have 6 available for macOS and so on.. [/QUOTE]
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