On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 03:07:00PM +0100, Matt Clark wrote: > You turn it off in the BIOS. There is no 'other half', the processor is > just pretending to have two cores by shuffling registers around, which > gives maybe a 5-10% performance gain in certain multithreaded > situations.
> <opinion>A hack to overcome marchitactural limitations due > to the overly long pipeline in the Prescott core.</opinion>. Really of > most use for desktop interactivity rather than actual throughput. <OT> Hyperthreading is actually an excellent architectural feature that can give significant performance gains when implemented well and used for an appropriate workload under a decently HT aware OS. IMO, typical RDBMS streams are not an obviously appropriate workload, Intel didn't implement it particularly well and I don't think there are any OSes that support it particularly well. </OT> But don't write off using it in the future, when it's been improved at both the OS and the silicon levels. Cheers, Steve ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])