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Re:AMD Killed the Itanium by yosefk on Saturday February 04, 2023 @09:39AM (#34654810)
How many threads would it take to hide 100ns of DRAM access latency and what serial performance would we get?
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Re:AMD Killed the Itanium by nullc on Saturday February 04, 2023 @09:02PM (#34660859)
It doesn't have to be hidden completely, there are still caches.

With 2 unstalled threads you effectively halve it (in terms of throughput), 4 unstalled threads you effectively quarter it, etc.

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