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Re:Perhaps it is simpler to say that Intel was disrupted by beagle3 on Monday July 02, 2018 @02:42PM (#17444323)
The original HT implementation was so incredibly bad that people would turn it off to improve performance on multithreaded loads.
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Re:Perhaps it is simpler to say that Intel was disrupted by georgeecollins on Monday July 02, 2018 @02:45PM (#17444344)
So true! It only worked on example code, it was very difficult to get an improvement in a real world app.
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