Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2057 from 2003/6/4
AFAIU SMP benfits from the fact that the task scheduler just balances the tasks between available cores itself and actual programs don't need to be SMP aware. The scheduler schedules taks and threads to the cores. On AMP only those applications benefit from additional cores that explicitly are written for multi core processing. Probably no big deal for new multithreaded programs, but old programs will utilize the master core only.
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