Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 09:15:18 11/15/02
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On November 15, 2002 at 12:10:44, Francesco Di Tolla wrote: >"Hyper- Threading Technology, which was pioneered on Intel's advanced server >processors, helps your PC work more efficiently by maximizing processor >resources and enabling a single processor to run two separate threads of >software simultaneously" > >I don't get the point: any modern cpu runs as many threads as it wants >simultaneously doing "context switching". > >Does this mean that in a Pentium two threads run at the same time in the CPU? >Then one would have "two CPU in one". That's the idea... But in practise it's more like 'one and a half CPU's in one' or even less :) -- GCP
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