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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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How does a single thread run on multiple cores?

I am trying to understand, at a high-level, how single threads run across multiple cores. Below is my best understanding. I do not believe it is correct though. Based on my reading of Hyper-threading,...
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How does the web application support 150 max threads when the cpu only supports 2? [duplicate]

doing an lscpu cmd this is what i get $ lscpu Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 2 On-line CPU(s) list: ...
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Is it possible and faster to run an application on an unused CPU core?

Is it possible to move an application (or task) to another core to make it run faster and get all of that cores processing power? The way I understand it is that in an operating system applications ...
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Why would a program require a specific minimum number of CPU cores?

Is it possible to write code (or complete software, rather than a piece of code) that won't work properly when run on a CPU that has less than N number of cores? Without checking it explicitly and ...
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Can we illustrate a CPU pipeline with a UML sequence diagram?

I study multicore pipelining and the diagrams are not UML sequence diagrams for instance Why not remake this diagram like an UML sequence diagram, would not that be more clear so that we can see ...
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