Multicore may not be so scary: Linux will keep up with addition of more processing units

Computer chips have stopped getting faster. To keep improving chips` performance, manufacturers have turned to adding more "cores," or processing units, to each chip. In principle, a chip with two cores can run twice as fast as a chip with only one core, a chip with four cores four times as fast, and so on.

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