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Date:      Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:13:13 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "Justin R. Smith" <jsmith@drexel.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Hyperthreading degrades performance?
Message-ID:  <20050825191230.C16967@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <430E09F8.8090001@freebsd.org>
References:  <430DF217.2020908@drexel.edu> <20050825173440.O16967@fledge.watson.org> <430E09F8.8090001@freebsd.org>

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On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Andre Oppermann wrote:

> Don't forget better PIV revisions with larger instruction decoder 
> caches, better cache prefetching and branch prediction.  I doubt much of 
> the improvement is due to our SMP changes.  A real test to find out 
> whether it's our work or Intels would be to benchmark an old (pre 
> Nacona) PIV running 5.3R and 7.0-current vs. a new one doing the same.

Well, given that my test box for this hasn't changed in three years, I 
think I can safely argue it's not the hardware :-).

Robert N M Watson



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