[luau] Hyper technology

[bob at atl.org]

On the subject of perforance...
does PPC offer any advantages in the area of context switching
(over various x86 implementations)?
is there a good comparison of processors (benchmark) site
that lists L1 cache(s) sizes L2 cache sizes, speeds, association schemes
and other processor charatracteristics in addition to the part
number or brand name and speeds?
I ask because I'm shopping for a new laptop and
past experience (purely subjective) is that I'm much happier
with larger L1 program and instruction caches than these blazing
clock numbers. This, and the SPARC processors seem to handle a large
number of processes better than the intel for a given clock speed...
Not that I expect to find a price/performance competitive
notebook with SPARC :-)

-Bob

On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Warren Togami wrote:

> Randall Oshita wrote:
> > Where can I check in 7.3 to see if its using HT?
> > Randall
> >
>
> If your hardware and kernel properly supports hyperthreading, then you
> would actually see what appears like multiple processors in "top" and
> other system monitors, but it is actually your one Pentium4 or Xeon
> processor.