Hello, everyone! I’ve been doing some research into computer hardware lately, and one thing that I keep coming across is this idea that the speed of a processor, while important, isn’t the only thing that affects a computer’s overall performance. I’m having a bit of a hard time wrapping my head around this because I always thought that a faster processor meant a faster computer. Can anyone explain why this isn’t necessarily the case? I’m really interested to learn more about this!
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The processor speed is like how many times you can swing a hammer per minute. But someone might hit harder with each swing and so does more work with less swings. This is the equivalent of processors that are able to accomplish more with each cycle. Also, you might get more people to swing their own hammers with you, this is like a multi-core processor.
But maybe you’re hammering in nails and they guys putting the nails in place is going slow. This is like a bottle neck with computers where another component is slowing it down (RAM or Hard Disk for example).
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