Re: hyperthreading or not
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:32:54PM -0500, Adam Skutt wrote:
> Jo Shields wrote:
> >
> >Hyperthreading gives an illusion of responsiveness on the desktop, but
> >no vendor in their right minds ships servers with HT turned on.
> >
> That's funny. You should tell Sun that about their Niagara processors.
They aren't intel netburst architecture. Someone else is free to
implement hyperthreading (SMT) without a shared pipeline after all. Not
sure how Sun (or IBM for that matter) do theirs.
Len Sorensen
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