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Date:      Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:40:38 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Kenneth Culver <culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
Cc:        Steve Wingate <stevew@velosystems.net>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Intel Xeon hyperthreading
Message-ID:  <3C9118D6.81B9FD62@mindspring.com>
References:  <20020314152326.H20147-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>

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Kenneth Culver wrote:
> I don't know if anyone is working on that, but from what I could tell, in
> a lot of cases, enabling the hyperthreading actually *decreased*
> performance of a lot of multithreaded and single threaded apps.

It requires extensive compiler support.

If you read the Intel documentation on how to write a compiler
that does the right things, it reads like a list of sixteen
"don't do this thing GCC did, do this instead".

So the answer is really a question... does the original poster
have their patches to GCC ready so that we can compile code
that tests hyperthreading?

-- Terry

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