Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 14:19:51 03/26/02
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On March 26, 2002 at 14:25:20, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >You are the idiot here believing that Hyperthreading gives something >when they admit that the current P4s 'currently have it turned off'. > >How can a feature work when it is 'turned off' in hardware, to use >intels own words? If you think I'm arguing that HyperThreading will give you some benefit when you're not using it, you're even dumber than I thought, and that's saying a lot. >Apart from that there is the theoretic discussion whether it would >*ever* work for a P4. the answer is no in all respects. _Your_ theoretical discussion, which is hardly gospel. >Too small L1 datacache and small L2 cache (with around 5 clocks penalty) This, from a person who has no clue how big his program's working set is. -Tom
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