5.3 and SMP(HTT)

Timothy J. Luoma lists at tntluoma.com
Sat Feb 5 11:22:19 PST 2005



...... Original Message .......
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:56:39 -0600 "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson at wixb.com> wrote:
>(there is only 1 CPU in this machine and NO way to add another) but I do 
>want to get any benefit from HTT - presuming a benefit actually exists.
>

the general concensus is that HTT does NOT give a benefit.  There have been 
other conversations about this within the past month or so.  As I recall, 
there is a trade off in "waiting" which has to happen.  HTT is something of 
a hack to deal with a long instruction pipeline in the new P4.





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