21 Feb
2012
21 Feb
'12
8:49 p.m.
On 02/21/2012 03:04 PM, David Riley wrote:
I have a 4-core i7 which masquerades as 8 due to
hyperthreading
(which they actually got right in the i7, as opposed to the P4). I
don't see a *lot* of difference between 9 and 12 jobs.
Oh dear, the replay mechanism problem? Wow what a mess that was! I
had assumed they'd fixed that by now; I'm glad to hear that they really
did. (typing this on a screaming fast i7 just like yours...it's about
time x86 processors got almost as fast as my UltraSPARCs, even though
they require 3x the clock rate to do it!)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA