What's the point of running Memtest86+ with multiple CPU cores?

sltech

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I'm running Memtest86+ right now on a new laptop I just got. By the time I get home, it'll have run for about 20 hours. It's running in whatever the default mode is if you don't select anything when it boots up, which I believe is a single core mode.

I've read that you can tell it to use multiple cores though. Is there any point in doing that, besides possibly being able to execute the tests/passes faster? I'm wondering if I should bother restarting the test with a multi-core mode when I get home.
 

Elixer

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As you said, it is faster, more cores are able to test more of the memory at the same time.