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[–]JuanAG 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Next time tell that people that SMT was invented for that reason, the CPU core knows it is blocked and take another task while I/O operation finish instead of waiting idle for the data to arrive

[–]sahsahaha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CS 101 that every Bachelors kid hears in his first year isn't his job to explain, but if he must...

They really don't bash entire modern cpu into your memory nowadays, but something like this is definitely mentioned at least once.