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		dan1234 on July 29, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs Ok, wouldn’t that be SMP, rather than SMT?

aquabeagle on July 29, 2019 | [–]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_multithreading

dustfinger on July 29, 2019 | | [–]

That's it! Thanks for correcting me :-)

dustfinger on July 29, 2019 | | [–]

Actually, now I am all spun around. The kenel configuration I was thinking of is indeed SMP [1] or Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP)

[1] https://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/linux_kernel/kernel_...

I will correct my typo above and expand the TLA (I can't edit my original post. Sorry for the confusion)

dustfinger on July 29, 2019 | [–]

Sorry, it is actually called Simultaneous multithreading (SMT).

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