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What does an idle CPU do? (2014)

manybutfinite.com published 2014-10-295 min read

In the last post I said the fundamental axiom of OS behavior is that at any given time, exactly one and only one task is active on a CPU. But if there’s absolutely nothing to do, then what? It turns

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