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Subject: Re: SURPRISING RESULTS P4 Xeon dual 2.8Ghz

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 11:21:10 12/17/02

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On December 17, 2002 at 13:15:36, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 17, 2002 at 11:58:21, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On December 17, 2002 at 11:27:18, Matt Taylor wrote:
>>
>>>Crafty gets better results with HT,
>>
>>In addition to what Vincent said, the data we currently
>>have is saying exactly the opposite.
>>
>
>I don't follow.  I posted the following twice already:

I've done my own tests.

>1 thread, SMT disabled, 24 positions, run twice, 1001.5K nps
>2 threads, SMT disabled, same conditions,        1604.5K nps
>3 threads, SMT enabled, same conditions,         1820.25K nps
>4 threads, SMT enabled, same conditions,         1923.0K nps
>
>Hyperthreading took the 16.04.5K nps for two bare xeon processors and
>improved that by 20%.  I can certainly post the raw data if it is important.
>I believe 20% is definitely better than 11%.  And 20% is not something to wave
>off as unimportant.

I measured similar numbers for 1->2 cpus (24%). But this is only
NPS increase, not the actual speedup which will be lower.

--
GCP



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