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Originally Posted by retina
I know everyone here likes to call these things "cores". But Intel called it hyper-threading for a reason. It is a thread, not a core. It never was a core, it never will be a core.
Calling them physical and virtual cores is mighty confusing. All cores are physical. The rest are threads feeding the cores. No virtual-anything is required.
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All memory is physical.
Doesn't stop the term "virtual memory" from being a term which is both useful and widely understood.