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Subject: Re: Hyperthreading - with half speed?

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 02:58:14 11/01/05

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On November 01, 2005 at 05:44:34, Gabor Szots wrote:

>I just got a new machine with P4 3GHz CPU. Analyzing positons with chess
>programs I looked at task manager and was surprised by seeing that only 50% CPU
>was assigned to the chess program thread while the other 50% was idle.
>I tried the same with Deep Sjeng with 2 processor setting and I saw 2 50% CPU
>threads while the system was idle 0%. Ok, however the Nps was the same as with
>only 1 processor, and test solution times were also the same.
>This all was under WinXP SP2.
>
>How can I exploit full CPU power? Any explanation would be welcome.

A system with hyperthreading really only has a single processor, it just
pretends there are two. At best you will get a few percent speedup.

A real dual core processor will give >70-80% speedup.

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GCP



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