maybe. but in a recent application i had, where i did a lot of MD5 cheksums, hyperthreading got me a factor 1.8.
On Nov 10, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Charles Remes wrote: > Use cores. The "hyper threading" touted by Intel is just marketing BS. > > cr > > On Nov 10, 2012, at 4:37 PM, Peter Vittali <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> In the ZeroMq documentation there is mention of 'threads' and 'cores' >> and it seems as if it is supposed >> that each core can run one thread at a time ( that is without >> switching between threads ). >> However, my box has this CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2120, which >> according to spec has two cores and 4 threads. >> Does this mean, for the purpose of designing 0mq apps, that I can >> replace the term 'core' with 'thread' ? >> In other words, on such a CPU, is the concurrency delimiting factor >> for 0MQ the number of cores or the number of threads. >> >> Thanks for your thoughts >> mycircuit >> _______________________________________________ >> zeromq-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev ----------------------- Andrew Hume 623-551-2845 (VO and best) 973-236-2014 (NJ) [email protected]
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