30 Mar
2012
30 Mar
'12
4:49 p.m.
If you are an octopus ( 8 hands, 8 cores ) and 9 balls
to
juggle, you'll be constantly switching one for another, while the
other 7 work away steadily. With a computer it will constantly be
switching between two processes, causing some overhead.
What an analogy! :)
Darrell