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Meaning of hyperthreading | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.

uncountable

Examples

“The scope of hyperthreading instructions is not covered in this book.”
“There are some cases where hyperthreading actually degrades CPU performance, especially when CPU utilization is high.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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