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		wtallis on Feb 25, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 10Gbit/s full TX wirespeed smallest packet size on... TLB flushes and most other context switch costs are still CPU performance issues even if they're not an instructions-per-second issue.

jsprogrammer on Feb 27, 2015 [–]

But that's only because the software is performing unnecessary actions/computations, it's not an inherent limitation of the CPU device.

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