Re: Hyperthreading & 8.0
Ian Holsman <[email protected]>
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Ryan wrote: > What does hyperthreading provide? from the benchmarks I have seen, they have reported a ~20-30% performance increase. the intel website goes into great detail about it, but a 2 line summary. a chip with 'hyperthreading' (ie Pentium IV Xeons) can be seen to the kernel as 2 seperate cpu's allowing two threads to execute at the same time --Ian > > On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 16:38, Jim Hayward wrote: > >>On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 13:18, Lotas T Smartman wrote: >> >>> >>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>Hash: SHA1 >>> >>>Am I not wrong in thinking that hyperthreading is only in the Xeon >>>P4's? and the newer ones out next year? Standard P4's now don't have >>>it, or am I wrong? >> >>AFAIK the current Xeon's are the only chips that support >>hyper-threading. The 3.06 GHz P4 which, according to rumor is supposed >>to be released Oct 25, will be the first "desktop" P4 to support >>hyper-threading. >> >>Regards, >> Jim H >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Limbo-list mailing list >>[email protected] >>https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/limbo-list > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Limbo-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/limbo-list >