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3 Jul 2024 01:29:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: MultiThreaded version of PovRay 3.5  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 11 Aug 2002 11:41:55
Message: <3d5685c3@news.povray.org>
In article <3d5677bd@news.povray.org> , "Theo Gottwald *" 
<The### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:

> So the speed win comes if one process is halted or used, I doubt we can have
> real
> 45% increase like with a true SMP-System. After what I have read till now,
> Floating-point calculations may be one of the things that get least speed
> improvements from "jackson technology hyperthreading". 25% ?

It runs down to _testing_ it.  Making guesses will get you nowhere with
modern microprocessor architectures.

    Thorsten

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