> They do boost performance on SMP (because you can have N (N=3Dnr. of CP=
> Us)
> threads serving data).
Depends on memory bandwidth, caches, locking overhead and a million other
issues.
> > on keeping it single-threaded - unless someone can tell me that's a =
> bad
> > idea)
>
> Keep it single threaded if you run on UP only...
Theory - SMP needs threading
Practice is generally a little different
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