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Subject: Re: OT: P4- 3 GHz with hyper-threading

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 15:08:49 11/02/02

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On November 02, 2002 at 17:49:43, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>I think the point being that Vincent's post was pure nonsense.  SMT _does_
>provide a speed-up.  Not a slow-down as Vincent claimed...

I'm quite surprised it does, in fact. I wouldn't have expected
parrallel_efficiency * smt_speedup to have equalled something
more than 2.

How come SMT is efficient, at all? I have a basic understanding
what it is but I don't get why it'd work in a chessprogram at all.

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GCP



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