intel i7 and Hyperthreading

[Ivan Voras]

Mike Tancsa wrote:
> Just got our first board to play around with and unlike in the past,
> having hyperthreading enabled seems to help performance.... At least in
> buildworld tests.
> 
> doing a make -j4 vs -j6 make -j8 vs -j10 gives
> 
> -j  buildworld time    % improvement over -j4
> 4       13:57
> 6       12:11            13%
> 8       11:32            18%
> 10      11:43            17%

Thanks for posting this!

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