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Subject: Re: When will Commercial Chess Programs Utilize Hyper-Threading Technolo

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:36:25 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".
>
>regards
>Franz


Correct...



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