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Does it ever make sense to use more concurrent processes than processor cores?

I've got some process in Go. Here's an example counting lines in text, though the question is meant to be far more general than this particular example: func lineCount(s string) int { count := 0 ...
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two processes with same execute time [closed]

Process A take 10 seconds to finish an execution. Process B take 10 seconds to finish an execution. Is it possible to take 5, 8, 15 seconds to finish an execeution if they run stimulately.
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Handling exceptions in multiple-issue CPUs

From what I read, VLIWs execute instructions in bundles, i.e. the CPU loads a bundle of instructions and dispatches them all at once. This is possible because the compiler scheduled instructions in ...
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