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27th April 2006, 17:51 | #1 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| Reverse Hyperthreading? Some days ago, AMD mumbled something to somebody about coming up with something called "reverse hyperthreading," which would make multiple CPUs look like one to a single-threaded program. On the one hand, like Intel's hyperthreading, this is unlikely to provide a big general boost. If a computing task is not amenable to parellization, a parallizer isn't going to help at all and might actually hurt a bit. On the other hand, even if an automated program could do just 50% of what an optimally programmed parallized applications can do, optimally programmed parallized programming is terribly difficult to do, takes a lot of time, and is very expensive. It's like writing machine code as opposed to using a high-level language/compiler. The first is better, but the second is much more affordable and practical.
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