[GRLUG] FYI - old mysql and new gear

Michael Mol mikemol at gmail.com
Thu Sep 22 15:22:20 EDT 2011


On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is hyperthreading more of a hardware
> function or a software?  The thing that
> often kills speedup is branching.  If you
> can keep a long sequence of computations
> going, you get speedup, but that doesn't
> always work out in practice either.
> What role do compilers have here, if any?
>    -- Bob

http://web.archive.org/web/20030811130623/http://arstechnica.com/paedia/h/hyperthreading/hyperthreading-1.html
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