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From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
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To: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
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On 01/11/2008 08:29, Justin Piszcz wrote:
[...]
> Why is running 3 jobs con-currently that take care of two parts each 
> more than
> twice as fast than running one job for six parts?

Because you have multiple CPUs?

Cheers,

John.