What is a process core?

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VeronicaIntrepid

3 years ago

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I have 6 cores on my laptop, for example, what does that mean?

Disadvantage658 · Answer 1 · 2021-04-24T13:34:44+00:00

HandyTicket · Answer 2 · 2021-04-24T13:34:51+00:00

Property · Answer 3 · 2021-04-24T13:37:21+00:00

Is actually not that precisely defined.

But the idea is that a processor core mainly executes tasks / commands independently.

All 6 cores can therefore execute 6 tasks in parallel.

Well, in practice, the cores share resources, etc., so they're not entirely independent.

lawrencemissile · Answer 4 · 2021-04-24T14:01:57+00:00

I hope the illustration is helpful