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Wednesday, November 02, 2011

More multi-core improvements

More multi-core improvements:

Matthew Dillon wrote up an explanation of how performance on systems with a lot of CPU cores has been significantly improved – up to 300%! (He says 200%, but I think he’s treating it as a percentage of a whole rather than percent changed.) Apparently finally getting rid of lock contention is the trick.

2 comments:

  1. It is about BSD, not Linux, isn't it?

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  2. Yes, it's BSD. Git rss feeds looks very similar.

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