Puppet_Sock wrote:
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>Modern CPUs don't "throw cycles away", they halt execution if there's
>nothing to do and consume far less energy that way.
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For suitable values of "halt." The CPU does not actually
halt, but simply goes into a state of doing a lot less.
I did not write the "CPU halts", only that it halts execution (of
instruction code), which is exactly what the i386 is doing, for example,
if it encounters the HLT instruction (which, to my knowledge, systems
such as Linux, *BSD and probably Windoze, too, exploit.)
