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> TLB misses? They are just a detail of particular CPU implementation, and the architectures change.

TLBs are "just a detail" of roughly 100% of server, desktop, and mobile CPUs.

> Also, aren't they per core and not per process? What would that solve then to switch to MT?

TLB entries are per address space. Threads share an address space, processes do not.




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