Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 09:04:44 12/17/02
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On December 17, 2002 at 11:40:37, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On December 17, 2002 at 10:31:02, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>It doesn't necessarily get slower. And once you move to windows .new, or >>the new linux kernel gets fixed, this won't happen at all as both of these >>systems will understand that two threads need to run on two physical processors >>rather than on two logical processors on the same physical processor... >> >>what is your point? This is a sudden revellation to you? :) > >Yes. The thing is, Microsoft is _specifically_ advertising Windows XP >(which was used for this test) as 'HyperThreading optimized'. > >This test shows that that should be taken with a few mountains >of salt, considering the OS cannot even schedule correctly! > >This means that _right now_, there are severe issues with HT >on a dual system. And they won't be resolved until a next generation >of OS comes out. > >-- >GCP Windows .net Server = Windows XP Server -Matt
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