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on 15/04/2010 07:28 Maho NAKATA said the following:
> right. Pinning might not be so important I guess. Core i7 is not NUMA.

It still should be beneficial from the point of view of core local caches.
If a thread that works on the same data set (non shared) stays on the same core
the chances are greater that the data stays in cache.

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Andriy Gapon