Use cores. The "hyper threading" touted by Intel is just marketing BS.
cr On Nov 10, 2012, at 4:37 PM, Peter Vittali <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > In the ZeroMq documentation there is mention of 'threads' and 'cores' > and it seems as if it is supposed > that each core can run one thread at a time ( that is without > switching between threads ). > However, my box has this CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2120, which > according to spec has two cores and 4 threads. > Does this mean, for the purpose of designing 0mq apps, that I can > replace the term 'core' with 'thread' ? > In other words, on such a CPU, is the concurrency delimiting factor > for 0MQ the number of cores or the number of threads. > > Thanks for your thoughts > mycircuit > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
