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Initial results
Surveyed >50 desktop applications
- BeOS, Linux and Windows NT.
Lots of threads, but limited concurrency.
- Multimedia, web: 1.2~1.4.
- TLP is workload dependent. Photoshop: 1.23-2.36 TLP.
- Java apps similar to Windows apps.
Lots of idle time (often >80% of execution time).
4 processor machine is overkill (for apps other than make –j and parallel MPEG player).