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On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 02:14:18PM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> >I've heard this several times and don't doubt it, but it would be nice to
> >know more about the issue.  What type of cases?  What benchmarks have
> >been run showing this?
> 
> Well, I haven't actually seen any case where there was a performance 
> gain instead of degradation.

I've seen MS-Windows DCC apps (not optimized specifically for HT) get
significant speedup from HT.  Unfortnately those are the favored
benchmarks of Tom's Hardware et.al. so it is hard to get a truer sense of
the benefits (or pesimization) of HT.