Single Thread
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Single thread (ST) is a term used to describe applications that must execute their instructions serially; that is, they do not benefit from offloading parts of their execution to other CPUs in the system. Single threaded applications tend to bottleneck on raw CPU clock speed and cache access, and as a result may benefit from running in an environment with fewer cores and higher core clock speeds.
Contrast with MT.
