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Subject: Re: Hyperthreading and Playing over the Internet

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 16:14:03 01/08/04

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On January 08, 2004 at 17:53:04, Jasmine Baer wrote:

>Should I keep Hyperthreading turned on when playing games on playchess.com?
>
>I don't own any of the "deep" versions of commerically available engines.
>
>Does hyperthreading help playing engine vs. engine online?  Does it hurt?  Does
>it have no influence on engine performance?
>
>Theory is fine, but if anyone has done any quantitative testing, I'd love to
>hear from ya!

When running only 1 CPU intensive thread, hyperthreading is effectively
disabled, so it should make no difference.

-Tom



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