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On 27/07/2005, at 4:10 PM, Duncan wrote: |
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> SMP is short for Symmetrical Multi-Processing. Traditionally, it meant |
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> you had two CPUs. However, hyperthreading is treated by the kernel as |
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> two |
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> CPUs, which is why SMP must be enabled to get the hyperthreading |
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> option. |
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> Note that the newest thing to come to x86/x86_64 is dual-core CPUs. |
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> These |
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> CPUs actually have two logical CPUs in one package. This is better |
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> than |
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> hyperthreading because it's the real thing. |
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Actually, dual-core means they have two physical cores in one package. |
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Two logical cores = hyperthreading. ;P |
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On that note, you want the AMD dual cores as well, because they are |
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much better designed (they have the crossbar architecture all ready to |
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drop in additional cores, whereas the current Intel dual-core are |
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really ugly hacks and perform terribly compared to the AMD ones) |
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