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Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 17:08:17 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@work.bitmover.com>, CaT <cat@zip.com.au>,
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Subject: Re: Scaling noise
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Hi!

> Maybe this is a better way to get my point across.  Think about more CPUs
> on the same memory subsystem.  I've been trying to make this scaling point

The point of hyperthreading is that more virtual CPUs on same memory
subsystem can actually help stuff.
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				Pavel
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