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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:19:28 +0800
From: Jiawei Ye <leafy7382@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Detection of HTT
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On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:11:01 +1030, Wilkinson, Alex
<alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> wrote:
> Why is HTT turned off out of the box ? I thought HTT was meant to be a
> hardware 'performance enhancing' feature.
> 
> Why do we disable it ?
> 
> - aW
Because it benefits only certain types of load and slows down  the
machine otherwise.

Jiawei
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