Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>
> My personal experience is that HTT did help. This was with an older
> Xeon dual processor system, and I was running multithreaded programs
> that were basically huge amounts of floating point calculations (a bit
> like FFT).
In my experience HTT helps 20-30% in a well engineered workload. Extreme
care needs to be taken on minimizing synchronization primitive overhead
or that will take away your gain. (don't have 4 or 8 threads hammering
on one mutex a million times a second)
Pete
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