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Hyper-Threading Explained And Benchmarked

Posted by timothy on from the two-hearts-beat-as-one dept.

John Martin writes "2CPU.com has posted an updated article about Hyper-threading performance. They discuss the technology behind it, provide benchmarks, and make observations on what the future holds for hyper-threading. It's actually an easy, interesting read. Of note, they'll be publishing Part II in the near future which will detail hyper-threading performance under Linux 2.6. Hardware geeks will probably appreciate this."

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  1. Cinebench by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    that Cinebench performance evaluation is wacked, looks like he interpreted his own graphs wrong.

    What a fool.

  2. Re:Ever buy a car with auto-everything? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Please, don't mod up this idiot. It only encourages him. Check his name and then check his previous posts for some other inane comments. The day that he actually has something valuable to say will be the day that hell freezes over.

  3. Call that hyperthreading? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "they'll be publishing Part II in the near future"

    Part II should've been published concurrently, using idle time... tch!

  4. Bug fixing my post by ObviousGuy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I meant to say the 0xF00F bug which freezes the Pentium.

    The 0xCAFEBABE bug just slows it down to a crawl.

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  5. Re:Interesting. by Gleng · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cool, that explains it a little.

    I was actually trying to explain hyperthreading to someone today. I got about three minutes into the discussion and realised that I had absolutely no idea what I was talking about.

    The discussion arose because we were talking about stupid salesmen. I saw a salesman in a shop the other week, trying to explain hyperthreading to a lady with a glazed expression on her face.

    He was saying that hyperthreading makes it easier to use two monitors on your PC.

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  6. oh goodie! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    an extra frame or two for Doom3!

  7. From the article: by intermediate_represe · · Score: 2, Funny

    This could be analogous to two people in moderate shape being able to pile more wood in total, than a single person who's in great shape.
    hmm... in 6 years of architecture research i have never heard anyone talk about SMT like that. it's not even analogous :)

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    1. Re:From the article: by ArsonSmith · · Score: 4, Funny

      I have this other idea where we make a large wooden badger...

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    2. Re:From the article: by SpaceLifeForm · · Score: 2, Funny
      No, we don't need no stink'n badger.

      What we need is *two* Woodchucks.

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    3. Re:From the article: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Two teams of two woodchucks.

  8. Jim Kirk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    When did Kirk start benchmarking processors? One would think he would be too busy getting his crew killed and shagging green alien women...

  9. Re:Analogy by cant_get_a_good_nick · · Score: 2, Funny

    Could be true. Not sure if many slashdot geeks can understand "being in shape" and "physical labor"

    ***ducks***