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echo: nthelp
to: Frank Haber
from: Paul Ranson
date: 2005-08-08 14:03:16
subject: Re: Fine-grained Race Conditions

From: "Paul Ranson" 

I've seen no HT incompatibility, I've seen several SMP incompatibilities in
software under development. And in a fairly old Sun JVM...

Paul

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:42f21da3$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >With HT the actual multiprocessing PC became much more common
>
> I recently had the opportunity to run the same repetetive operations on
> 3-4 roughly comparable P4 2.8-3.2GHZ desktops, some with, some without HT.
> There's no doubt that the user experience is improved by HT.  As usual,
> it's not so much more muscle on the difficult operations as it is
> crispness in switching and startup that pleases.  I wouldn't even know how
> to begin benchmarking what I clearly can see and feel.
>
> The crowd here knows this well - they know how much smoother a dual-proc
> PPro was than the contemporary cheapies.
>
> As to the crashes - I haven't seen very many HT incompatibilities.  Have
> you?

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