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\date{2004/02/15}
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  We would expect to see a minimal improvement in performance with a
  SPED architecture on a multiprocessor system as the single process
  cannot divide its workload over multiple processors, and the only
  way performance would be improved is if the kernel could take
  advantage of the multiple processors. An AMPED architecture would
  fare only slightly better: the main process and helper processes
  could be executed at the same time, but since the main process
  performs all of the processing and the helper processes only
  perform disk operations the enhancement is small. The MP and MT
  models would be able to run multiple processes or threads at the
  same time, thus giving similarly high performance improvements for
  both.
  
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