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Does OS allocate each process to a separate core?

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Ok I know the classic argument for avoiding quad cores. At the application level, most applications haven't been written for multiple cores. Most desktop software doesn't even need parallelization. However, at the OS level, it seems obvious that the OS would divide up processes across the various c…

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The OS cannot split an individual single-threaded process across multiple cores (although it may change which core an application is running on, but that's a different question), however it can run multiple processes, each on its own core. So, yes, …

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