Theo Gottwald * wrote:

> There is an intresting article about Intel's new "Hyperthreading" in the
> actual iX Magazin. (heise-Verlag).
> 
> In short it says that you can only get a speed improvement if the two
> threads do not use the same processor-
> execution units (e.g. the floating-point-unit / or the ALU etc.
> If thats the case there are even speed-reduces cause the difrent threads
> block themselves from memory access.


So, no need for a multi-threaded Pov-engine for the hyperthreading Intel 
then.
Only candidates to remain are real multi-processors mobo...

Forecast: Hyperthreading might be a hype if successful, but no real 
performance for us...

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