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Where Have All The Cycles Gone?

Posted by timothy on from the that's-why-it's-called-ether dept.

Mai writes "Computers are getting faster all the time, or so they tell us. But, in fact, the user experience of performance hasn't improved much over the past 15 years. This article takes a look at where all the precious processor time and memory are going."

2 of 854 comments (clear)

  1. Re:My CPU Usage by Frymaster · · Score: 0, Redundant
    that's why I run Seti@Home in the winter

    you're wasting cycles on purpose? what a novel idea! most people piss away their cycles with 10,000 spy and adware processes.

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  2. background apps? by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Should use 0 cycles until they are needed, in which case it's not "background" anymore.

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