Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 00:48:19 04/25/02
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On April 24, 2002 at 20:29:36, Dan Andersson wrote: >You are probably mixing things up. There are different types of multi >processing. SMP is Symmetrical Multi Processing. There the memory is shared and >accessed the same for each processor. NUMA is Non Uniform Memory Access. Where >memory is mor tightly bound to individual processors. That means that some multi >processor code with SMP as a hidden assumption can be slower. Accessing memory via another CPU shouldn't be any slower than accessing memory via a northbridge. -Tom
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