SillyDog701

[Antony]

In VMware Fusion (Beta)'s release notes, it says:

Leverage Virtual SMP capabilities to gain additional performance improvements. On any Mac with dual-core processors, you can assign multiple CPUs to your virtual machine to gain additional performance for CPU-intensive workloads.

What is SMP? And exactly what does SMP do?

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[Don_HH2K]

SMP stands for Symmetric Multiprocessing, and is where two processors share the same memory and therefore can be used to perform the same task.

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[Antony]

Why do you need two or more processors to run the same task?

Is that something to do with "MP-aware" thing?

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[Don_HH2K]

You don't need to execute a task on two processors, but oftentimes it's faster, especially in the case of heavy-duty workloads or processes that run on more than one thread.

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