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  • 97% is pretty much for such a program (since it will be in the first level CPU-cache with just a few assembler opcodes). Try to draw the square root of 2 instead... Commented Sep 27, 2012 at 20:49
  • still dont understand cpu should be at full usage because it is always doing arithmetic operations... maybe because is a pipe-lined superscalar processor? Commented Sep 28, 2012 at 13:09
  • an increment by one is a pretty boring operation for a CPU (even before pipelines were build into CPUs). So there will be time left to look for more interesting jobs. And yes - pipelining has to do something with it. Commented Sep 30, 2012 at 21:13