Question: Can someone hypothesize why the OS X Activity Monitor graph looks the way it does on this 4-core Intel Core i7 chip (remember, it is Hyper-threaded)?
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Because the OS is smart enough to distribute the work onto four different physical cores, instead of just treating them as 8 logical cores and randomly distribute the work, which might actually hurt the performance because the same core can get more than one jobs while there are idle cores available.
Question: Can someone hypothesize why the OS X Activity Monitor graph looks the way it does on this 4-core Intel Core i7 chip (remember, it is Hyper-threaded)?
Because the OS is smart enough to distribute the work onto four different physical cores, instead of just treating them as 8 logical cores and randomly distribute the work, which might actually hurt the performance because the same core can get more than one jobs while there are idle cores available.