Did anyone else hear the rumor about this Hyper Threading going already in beta production state to Laptops ? I talked this week already to 2 people who claim to know people who test this at home Both claim this laptops doing more box time over normal lithium power and real time smp behavior This shit is gonna rock if it works ok , does the latest kernel support this ? I wounder though what will amd response to this threat be
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oded Arbel Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 10:56 AM To: Micha Feigin; Linux-IL Subject: Re: [OT?] New Computer On Saturday 09 August 2003 00:51, Micha Feigin wrote: > Hyper Threading is an Intel technology that enables one processor to > > > perform two operations at once in a similar manner to SMP (but still > > sharing some resources, which is not the case for SMP). > > > > http://www.intel.com/technology/hyperthread/ > > There is about one line on that site that actuallu hints at what the > processor is doing and it sounds a bit like what mips is doing for > quite some time now, only since x86 commands are more complicated its > probably harder to implement. Since Intel's have been RISC chips under the hood ever since P2 (and maybe before that), maybe it wasn't that harder. -- Oded ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
