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let's see some numbers

let's see some numbers

Posted Apr 28, 2008 20:28 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: let's see some numbers by zooko
Parent article: Interview with Donald Knuth (InformIT)

You can probably go into the kernel and disable support for more then one or two cores, then
enable them later and see if there is any difference. On a quad core machine, of course. Which
is pretty affordable nowadays, in terms of development machines.


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