processor thread (Q123260437)
execution component of a microprocessor which is presented as logically independent but may share some resources with other threads, limiting actual parallelism
- hardware thread
- CPU thread
- logical core
- logical CPU
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| English | processor thread |
execution component of a microprocessor which is presented as logically independent but may share some resources with other threads, limiting actual parallelism |
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lstopo diagram for an Intel laptop, showing two threads ("PU") in each of the two CPU cores (English)
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