Re: Hyperthreading & 8.0

From: "Ian Holsman" <[email protected]>
> 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

Which means that you get to pay a 2 CPU license fee for an OS that only
really has one CPU.

{^_-}