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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:47:23 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: duo core question
Message-ID:  <46530314-08E5-42EE-B4AC-C83EBABDEB2F@u.washington.edu>
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On Jan 16, 2007, at 8:58 PM, Norberto Meijome wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:35:45 -0500
> "Tsu-Fan Cheng" <tfcheng@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> so for you guys who have experiecen with this cpu, do you really  
>> "feel" it??
>
> np - you are assuming i have experience with them ;)
>
> you need to understand, it's like a dual CPU , NOT like HT (you  
> can , I think ,
> have HT as well as dual/quad core...maybe not.. ? ).
>

<snip>

Seems like you can. See: <http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/ 
Hardware_Software/2005/dual_core.asp>.

As for multicore support, I thought it was better with -CURRENT (ULE2  
as of late sounds like it can support concurrency with multiple  
cores / CPUs better than the 4BSD scheduler), but running -CURRENT  
comes with a price, namely stability.

The GNU/Linux crowd (or at least some folks in it), were raving that  
later versions of gcc, i.e. 4.x (coming to 7 sometime in the near  
future maybe) had better multi - core / CPU support as well in terms  
of optimizations and junk. But that's just fanboy/ricer ranting,  
maybe.. or maybe not..

-Garrett





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