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Would my virus scanner be able to scan multiple files concurrently with dual CPU instead of multi-core?
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Anti-virus: Microsoft Security Essentials OS : Windows 7 x64 Silly question perhaps, but somehow I was under the impression that multiple cores would mean the anti-virus scanner would be able to handle multiple files concurrently by allocating them to different cores. As it turns out I'm wrong. The…
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From the software side in 99% of all cases, multicore processor is no different than multiprocessor system. In some cases, there could be an advantage in the multicore camp because the communication between cores is quicker than it is for multiproce…
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