-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alle 19:44, sabato 30 agosto 2003, Bruce Marshall ha scritto:
On Friday 29 August 2003 23:57 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
So in a nutshell, it shouldn't hurt, might help a little, you probably won't notice any difference, and besides, it's a neat conversation piece. :-)
http://www.arstechnica.com/paedia/h/hyperthreading/hyperthreading-1.html I do not know if the link has already been posted as I have not being following this thread closely, but that link explains the argument quite well. Hyperthreading should not hurt at all, as the cpu works in the usual way. The only difference is that HT allows the idle parts of the CPU to be used by another thread, so it should be faster than a non-HT machine, but slower than a SMP one. Praise -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/UO296v3ZTabyE8kRAmgTAKDNGpwhkx9In6aJfJejSBGxTewaDgCgmh1Z xg1hvzaawUg9aEa91jIAnXk= =8YfP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----