Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:06:36 07/07/03
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On July 07, 2003 at 21:35:04, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On July 07, 2003 at 19:15:35, Peter Stayne wrote: > >>Nah, Daniel is right. Even non-SMP programs do gain a slight advantage in speed >>with HT enabled, though minimal, benchmarks have shown this. > >Which benchmarks? I won't believe this until I see it. Operating systems take a >fraction of 1% of your CPU to do housekeeping when you're running a chess >program, and only a fraction of that could be offloaded to a 2nd CPU. > >-Tom I think such tests are simply flawed. In the above case, whatever gets "offloaded" might well slow down the other logical processor anyway...
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