[luau] hyperthreading facts

Randall Oshita roshita at uniserveinc.com
Tue Jan 14 12:52:00 PST 2003


>>You were talking about 200% performance improvements which I said 
>>rightly was impossible.  Hyperthreading does not ever approach SMP in 
>>performance gains.
>>
>>I said that certain things will go slower with Hyperthreading which
the 
>>benchmarks do show, but other things do indeed go faster.  I had not 
>>seen 2.5.x kernel benchmarks before, but yes those numbers do indeed 
>>indicate more significant gains.
>>
>>Warren

I concur. I was not disagreeing with you LinuxDan but never seen any
benchmarks that established a 200% improvement. HT also makes certain
apps run slower from the benchmarks I've read. I apologize if you
thought I was giving opinionated statements, guess I should have stated
some facts.
Randall






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