On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:02:08 +0200, scott wrote:

>> Generally that isn't going to happen on modern processors, though,
>> because the CPU hits 100% during computationally intensive periods,
> 
> Yeh that's what I meant, like if the CPU had to decompress some files
> during loading (eg game graphics or whatever), assuming it is CPU-bound
> then of course I want the CPU usage to be at 100%.

That's a big assumption, though, and not generally the way things work.  
And even then, you're assuming that the speed of the CPU core = the speed 
of the bus to the memory, and that just isn't happening on modern systems 
any more.

Jim

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