At 03:04 PM 1/5/2003 -0800, Terry S. Arnol wrote:
>Does Hyperthreading have any significant performance impact on Prime95?
>

This issue was discussed on this list around March of 2002.  I believe the
results were that Prime95 is so efficient that hyperthreading has no
performance improvement or benefit for a computer running Prime95.

Prime95 has no pipeline stalls that a second hyperthread could efficiently
utilize.

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David Underbakke


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