The Old New Thing

October 28, 2013 - The Old New Thing

The financial acumen of sea turtles

October 28, 2013 Oct 28, 2013 10/28/13
Raymond Chen
I dreamed that I was attending some sort of "how to be awesome" seminar where the presenter said, among other things, that a sea turtle, when left to thrive undisturbed, amasses $1 million in personal wealth within one year...

Using GetLogicalProcessorInformationEx to see the relationship between logical and physical processors

October 28, 2013 Oct 28, 2013 10/28/13
Raymond Chen
Today's Little Program uses the function to print the mapping of logical processors to physical processors, as well as the mapping of logical processors to packages. (A dual-core processor is a single package with two cores. If those cores are themselves dual-hyperthreaded, then you have four logical processors total.) The helper ...