Author: K. Burcham
Date: 06:59:49 03/14/02
(taken from Tom's site) "A few final thoughts on Intel's Hyperthreading technology, which virtually doubles the number of processors: when using typical applications that are optimized for dual processing, Hyperthreading brings no advantages with it. Rather, the overhead on data slows down the application. Only software that is specially adapted for Hyperthreading enables an increase in performance. In addition, when Hyperthreading is activated, the memory performance decreases drastically, which is partially reflected by the memory benchmark." Notice the four windows in the task manager with Hyper-Threading enabled in a dual processor system. Shows four processors. http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q1/0203131/dual-03.html makes you wonder what this will do with a chess smp program. kburcham
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