Atom's HTT is actually pretty good - I saw up to 25% more performance
simply by using multithreading in 7zip's compression benchmark (on
WinXP, though). Of course, OTOH it uses about that much more transistors
on the CPU die so it's not exactly free performance.
really that much? i thought
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
as far as i know, just enabling smp will allow ht to function. also, i don't
know if intel changed ht in the new atom processor, they could have.
is FreeBSD's smp special in some way that it would be the exception to
the following statement.
I know there was a lot of
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Atom's HTT is actually pretty good - I saw up to 25% more performance
simply by using multithreading in 7zip's compression benchmark (on
WinXP, though). Of course, OTOH it uses about that much more transistors
on the CPU die so it's not exactly free performance.
Brett Glass wrote:
Which raises a question: What's the status of FreeBSD's support for
hyperthreading? As far as I know, after it was revealed that some
processes on a machine with hyperthreading could spy on others, and
Yes, but that is a hardware problem which is independent of the
as far as i know, just enabling smp will allow ht to function. also, i don't
know if intel changed ht in the new atom processor, they could have.
is FreeBSD's smp special in some way that it would be the exception to
the following statement.
I know there was a lot of changes made in the new
Netbooks based on Intel's Atom microprocessor are turning into
big hits this Christmas season. The Atom, a super-low-power x86
processor, is an in-order machine, which means that except for a
few special cases it can spend a lot of time waiting for data to
arrive when it encounters a cache
Brett Glass wrote:
Netbooks based on Intel's Atom microprocessor are turning into big
hits this Christmas season. The Atom, a super-low-power x86 processor,
is an in-order machine, which means that except for a few special
cases it can spend a lot of time waiting for data to arrive when it
Netbooks based on Intel's Atom microprocessor are turning into big hits
this Christmas season. The Atom, a super-low-power x86 processor, is an
in-order machine, which means that except for a few special cases it can
spend a lot of time waiting for data to arrive when it encounters a cache
