Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:11:51 10/06/02
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On October 06, 2002 at 14:22:59, emerson tan wrote: >Does hyperthreading have any benefit on chess softwares? If it does, how many >percent is the improvement? thanks The general "feeling" is that it seems to make the machine behave like it is 30-50% faster on average. So it might help in some cases. But chess is different, and using two threads on a hyper-threaded CPU looks dangerous for reasons I have given in the past dealing with running more threads than actual CPUs.
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