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Re:Why choose async/await over threads? by nine_k on Monday March 25, 2024 @02:48PM (#39819927)
Also, IBM POWER have SMT at levels above 2; at least POWER 7 had 4-way SMT ("hyperthreading").
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Re:Why choose async/await over threads? by Animats on Monday March 25, 2024 @06:55PM (#39822170)
Missed that. That's part of IBM mainframe technology, where you can have "logical partitions", a cluster on a chip, and assign various resources to each. IBM POWER10 apparently allows up to 8-way hyperthreading if configured that way.
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