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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:49:51 11/03/02

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On November 03, 2002 at 10:09:19, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On November 02, 2002 at 18:08:49, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>My results are reproduced by many. Just take a look at anandtech
>for example. It gave a slowdown there.

Just means the test or the program was not particularly well-suited.
Doesn't mean hyper-threading is bad in general.  It works pretty well
in all the tests I have run.



>
>>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.
>>
>>--
>>GCP



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