Re: P4 hyperthreading

Davide Libenzi (davidel@xmailserver.org)
Sat, 1 Jun 2002 20:04:33 -0700 (PDT)


On 1 Jun 2002, Louis Garcia wrote:

> I was just thinking about that. Do you now if this has a real speed
> improvement?

intel claims up to 30-40% but i've never tried it. the bottleneck is that
they share fsb and cache but in any case having an extra exec-path might
help more than demage. this is for your sleepless nights :

http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/2002/volume06issue01/art01_hyper/vol6iss1_art01.pdf

- Davide

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