I don't know much about Hyperthreading, but do the applications need to be specially optimized and/or recompiled for you to get performance increases, or will standard applications see these types of improvements just due to the CPU alone?
Thanks! Rob --- "R. Scott Belford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-htl/?ca=dgr-lnxw01HyperThread#resources > > "Intel Xeon Hyper-Threading is definitely having a positive impact > on Linux > kernel and multithreaded applications. The speed-up from > Hyper-Threading > could be as high as 30% in stock kernel 2.4.19, to 51% in kernel > 2.5.32 due > to drastic changes in the scheduler run queue's support and > Hyper-Threading > awareness. ..." > > This article was linked from Slashdot. > > scott > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
