Is it better to have more cores or more threads?



Is it better to have more cores or more threads?..

Answer / Sudhir Kumar Keshari

More cores generally provide better performance for parallel computing tasks, as each core can execute instructions independently. However, having more threads than available cores will lead to thread contention and reduced overall performance due to context switching overhead.

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