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If a task takes 10 hours on a 1GHz processor, does it take 5 hours on a 2Ghz processor?
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If a task takes 10 hours on a 1GHz processor, does it take 5 hours on a 2Ghz processor? Or am I oversimplifying the issue?
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As pointed out by the other answers, even if the CPU works 5 times faster, not everything will be 5 times faster, because sometimes the computer spends time not working with the CPU, but waiting for other operations, such as disk or network I/O. In …
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