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From: jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Single user vs. shared (was Re: Killer Micros and vectorized code)
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Date: 21 Mar 90 05:24:54 GMT
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Reply-To: jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen)
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Sharing users is definately more effecient.  Four processors can easily share
one user.  However, when you get up to eight processors significant thrashing
begins to occur.

:)

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