<OT> I love my wife...

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 07:04:44PM -0500, Jerry McBride took 48 lines to write:
> >
> > Ok you guys... it's one day past christmas and I have a quiet moment I can
> > spend with you...
> >
> > Santa was very nice to me this year. Probably one of the best gifts I got was
> > a shiney new COMPAQ R3320US laptop. Sports a 3Ghz P4, 512M ram, 60G hdd and
> > one of those mile wide lcd screens... Wifey bought it for me. She was so
> > proud to hand it to me last night that I didn't have the heart to tell her
> > that I could have gotten one from work for nothing... <VBG> Except it would
> > have been the amd 64bit speed boatd instead of Intels finest.
>
> Clearly, your wife loves you, too.
>
> [lousy HT performance]
>
> That doesn't sound right. You should see better performance, not worse,
> with HT enabled. What does Google have to say?

Prolly that what he's experiencing is normal.  Intel's hyperthreading
technology is basically crap except for a few floating point corner cases.

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