On Tue, 31 May 2016 21:12:37 +0100, wrote:

On Tue, 31 May 2016 19:10:05 +0100, "Mr Macaw" wrote:

The CPU itself has 4 or more seperate cores independent of one another.

You also have to look at data paths, access to DASD, access to RAM and
how the firmware/software is written.

The point is two or more things can easily be happening simultaneously. One CPU core is doing a calculation, while the other is loading from memory. Same is true of the brain.

If what you said was true, then I couldn't run 4 programs at the same time maxing out all 4 cores, with all of them running the same speed as if they were run individually.

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