On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 10:31:34PM -0700, Bob Scofield wrote: > On Sunday 08 May 2005 20:53, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > > It's called CPU throttling. There are a few different approaches, but many > > of them work by essentially letting the CPU run at full speed while > > inserting NOPs to reduce heat generation. Apparently, NOPs generate less > > heat. :) > > Pete, what is a NOP?
It's one of the various basic building-block procedures a CPU can do. (Others include reading a small chunk of memory, adding two values together, writing the result back to memory, etc.) A "NOP" is short for "No OPeration", and is pretty much telling the CPU "do /nothing/ for 1 cycle". I hope I've got that right. :) -- -bill! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://newbreedsoftware.com/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
