On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[email protected]> wrote: > In <[email protected]>, on 01/12/2015 > at 10:42 AM, Jerry <[email protected]> said: > >>Yes, hyperthreading is Intel's name for SMT. It was first introduced >>in 2002 in Pentium 4. > > I might be willing to beleive 1957. > > ObDumDaDumDum Only the names have been changed. > > --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_predictor Instruction pipelines and branch predicting started with IBM Stretch. Multiple cores with the IBM 360. Now if they could pipeline both branches in the same core then keep the one that is selected, it could help. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
