On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 11:44:56PM +1300, Glenn Enright wrote > I apreciate that AMD certainly seem to have the memory > bandwidth/throughput thing nailed, and their processors stand tall as > a result. but I doubt that a p4 would perform near as well without a > large part of the enginered paralelism that comes as part HThreading, > compared to a purely serial system. > > 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.
HT is being phased out *ACCORDING TO INTEL*. See article at... http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30087 -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
