On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 23:44 +1300, Glenn Enright wrote: > I can certainly tell you that compiling (as an example) *wihtout* HT enabled > on my P4 is a bad idea, takes nearly 4 times as long.
I would hesitate to say, the reason for this is more likely to do with the way HT is turned off. I've noticed massive slowdowns with turning HT depending on whether I turn it off in the bios or just play with the kernel. <conspiracy theory> there may even be some intentional slowdown when you do a bios / chip based disable </conspiracy theory> -- Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au> Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this-- no dog exchanges bones with another. -- Adam Smith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list