AMD said to be researching 'reverse multi-threading' tech | Reg Hardware

AMD said to be researching 'reverse multi-threading' tech | Reg Hardware

There are specifica applications where multi-core is not advantageous, but--as pointed out in the article--by the time this ships those may be largely moot. One common case is where the application is not designed to leverage the degree of parallelism offered by multiple CPUs and the OS overhead in managing state partially detracts from the performance of multi-CPU systems (this is why two is not always double the one).