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Feature of CPU needed to run Javascript fast

This is more of a Computer Engineering question, but what is the feature of a CPU to run Javascript fast? I use to access the internet with an AMD Phenom II with 6 cores and I could almost have as ...
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In software programming, would it be possible to have both CPU and GPU loads at 100%?

This is a general question on a subject I've found interesting as a gamer: CPU/GPU bottlenecks and programming. If I'm not mistaken, I've come to understand that both CPU and GPU calculate stuff, but ...
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Hardware accelerated text processing

Graphics processing units (GPUs) are very common and allow for efficient, parallel processing of floating point numbers. PPUs (Physics Processing Units) used to be a buzzword several years ago but ...
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When should I be offloading work to a GPU instead of the CPU?

Newer systems such as OpenCL are being made so that we can run more and more code on our graphics processors, which makes sense, because we should be able to utilise as much of the power in our ...
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