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Editing Memory and Multi-core Programming

Editing Memory and Multi-core Programming [24]
CPUs | 8th Nov 2009

In a race dubbed 'the core wars', manufactures are stuffing more and more cores into CPUs. While more can only be a good thing, there's little point if the software they are running can't use them. Microsoft shares with us a possible piece of the puzzle to making full use of multi-core CPUs.

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