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Old 03-20-2011, 09:35 PM   #1
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Speedy 'Wonder Patch' Debuts in New Linux Kernel


http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...ux_kernel.html
 
Old 03-21-2011, 06:08 AM   #2
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Just to be totally clear to those who think this patch will make day-to-day low-CPU-usage operations 10x faster at normal loads: it won't.

All it really does is tweak the process scheduler so that desktop responsiveness improves when a heavily-loaded process (or processes) of a different "group" is running in the background (e.g. video transcoding, code compiling, etc.; things typically done in a terminal).

I repeat, this patch does not magically give your Pentium 4 the performance of a Core i7.

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