What is core and what is processor? How are they related?
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Back in the day, processors only had one core, so there wasn’t really words to distinguish them.
Cores are the things doing actual work, while the processor is the physical place they’re doing the work. Think of it like having a factory (processor) with one assembly line (core) in it. You can do twice as much work with two assembly lines (two cores). You could have produced both results before on the one line, but it would’ve meant constantly stopping work to change the line to the other product.
A modern consumer level processor might contain up to 24 cores which can work in parallel on your computer. You can have different processes (like each tab in Chrome, Spotify, the background Windows processes) each running in their own cores, preventing them from interrupting each other for CPU time.
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