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Subject: Re: Scaling noise
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On Mer, 2003-09-03 at 19:07, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Then explain why hyperthreading is turned off by default in Windows.

Most people I know turn it off in windows because its a 5-10%
performance boost (which is nice) but vendors bill it as an extra CPU
licenses!