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Subject: Re: To SMP or not to SMP
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On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Erich Dollansky
<erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote:

> SMP goes into the applications. A single-CPU kernel must still run
> these kind of applications.

Applications may be multithreaded - and on a host with more than one
(real or virtual) CPU, those threads may run concurrently.  De quoi
s'agit-il? What's your point?

- M