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Remember Cyrix and HLT?

Posted May 11, 2008 14:36 UTC (Sun) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Remember Cyrix and HLT? by kleptog
Parent article: Matthew Garrett on the race to idle

C states are effectively a more advanced implementation of the hlt instruction. C1 is
equivalent to hlt, with deeper states disabling more of the CPU and introducing more latency.

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