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>Karl Nyberg was kind enough to run the N-CPU quicksort test on his Sun
>"Try and Buy" evaluation T1000, with 8 cores, 4 threads per core and got
  Karl did additional runs using up to 32 tasks.  Going from 1 to 4 tasks
more than tripled the speed.  Adding another 28 tasks, for a total of 32,
gave nearly another doubling of the speed (approximately 3% improvement
for each additional task).