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What are threads, and what do they do in the processor?
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I was looking at the stats for the Intel Pentium e5700 CPU. It has two cores and two threads. What do the threads do for the processor? Is there any relation between the number of cores and the number of threads? What purpose do threads serve for the system overall?
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The core count is the physical number of cores on the CPU die itself, whereas the thread count is the number of individual application threads which can be executing simultaneously on the CPU itself. Without any additional or special hardware, this …
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