Re: [opensuse] CPU: higher clock speed or more cores? and: ksysguard possible CPU usage bug?

Anton Aylward wrote:

John Andersen said the following on 01/14/2012 03:45 PM:

But not all applications have that need, and lots of things work just
fine with smaller registers.

For example, most loops are just fine with 8-bit registers ...

I suspect, that somewhere in the history of computing, there have been
machines with small registers dedicated to loop counting.

The instruction pointer? Only increment or load. :-)



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