Object cache everywhere WordPress tries to reduce the number of database queries as much as possible. For example, anytime you get a meta field or a taxonomy field, before querying the database, WordPress looks if that that was already queried and stored in cache, and returns it from there instead of querying the database. The … Read more
A socket is the physical socket where the physical CPU capsules are placed. A normal PC only have one socket. Cores are the number of CPU-cores per CPU capsule. A modern standard CPU for a standard PC usually have two or four cores. And some CPUs can run more than one parallel thread per CPU-core. … Read more
A core is a physical unit of a CPU. A virtual CPU (vCPU) also known as a virtual processor, is a physical central processing unit (CPU) that is assigned to a virtual machine (VM). For more details, you can refer to these msdn answers: this and this.
A core is usually the basic computation unit of the CPU – it can run a single program context (or multiple ones if it supports hardware threads such as hyperthreading on Intel CPUs), maintaining the correct program state, registers, and correct execution order, and performing the operations through ALUs. For optimization purposes, a core can also … Read more