Of course it will depend on the scene etc. however if you look at the
architecture you can see if it is technically like a smp-system or if its
not.

However true numbers will always depend on many factors, but what the good
thing about is, that if
many people have thos "2-in 1" chips (even if they are only "2+1/2 in one",
so the software will
be updated for "2 in one" and this will enable to sell more
multiprocessor-boards.

And with an increased number of SMP-Applications also the consumer-market of
the future may see
a multi-processing race (you know it from the CD-ROM's-speed  2 times, 4
times 75 times ...).
We want to see that with SMP-Systems.

cu
--Theo

"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news: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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