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Subject: Re: HyperThreading on Intel Xeon Haswell, a benefit?
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Jia-Shiun Li <jiashiun@gmail.com> wrote:
> You really need your own evaluation methods for your own real world workload.

Of course. Yet many users here might like to compare common things:
o make buildworld times
o iozone if disks are not limiting factor
o openssl speed as below
o etc

> See if this extreme case motivates you.

Not much since it provides no information regarding HTT.
It doesn't, at minimum:
o  State whether HTT was on or off.
o  Show the results of two runs, one with HTT on, one with HTT off.