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Yeah, I think the HFT guys use CPU pinning a lot: 1 process - 1 CPU, so you'd need multiple processes to take advantage of multicores server.



Usually it is 1 thread - 1 CPU. There might be other reasons (address space separation has its own advantages - and disadvantages) to have distinct processes of course.




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