Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 09:36:52 12/17/02
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On December 17, 2002 at 12:10:34, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On December 17, 2002 at 12:04:44, Matt Taylor wrote: > >>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 > >The tests were run on Windows XP Professional. Is the XP Server >scheduler smarter? > >-- >GCP in general 'server' is hell slower for computerchess as it is doing anything first before executing the engine processes :)
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