Re: hyperthreading or not
Jo Shields wrote:
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> The problem with hyperthreading is that there's only a bare minimum of
> distinct hardware - almost all resources are shared. notably, a pipeline
> stall on one thread (where the pipelines on a p4 are ridiculously long)
> will flufh the hyperthread's pipeline too.
Ok, two threads in the same time means that you double your chance of
pipeline stall. It must be killing yourself on a P4, but what about an
AMD64 ?
The depth of the pipeline is still reasonable (isn't it ?).
Regards
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Emmanuel Fleury
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Berlioz
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