Subject: Re: Hyperthreading?
To: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/20/2003 21:18:37
Simon Burge wrote:
> 1 CPU -j2 4056.016u 858.126s 1:19:57.97 102.4%
> 2 CPU -j2 4245.934u 1283.933s 56:41.13 162.5%
25 minutes difference is cool, IMHO. 30% gain looks fine.
The difference would probably be even higher if the
machine would run some CPU-intensive userland-mostly
stuff, like some number-crunching.
Jaromir
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