[Gllug] Re: Memory usage

[John Hearns]

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 22:59 +0100, Tethys wrote:
> "Martin A. Brooks" writes:
> 
> >But you are prepared to put up with crappy performance by buying HT 
> >nonsense instead of a proper SMP setup? :)
> >
> >Sorry, I'll get my coat...
> 
> :-) Actually HT has some quite decent performance characteristics for
> general purpose use. For certain specialist applications (large scale
> number crunching being the prime example), it turns out to be a win
> to disable HT,
You called?
As the acronym says, YMMV
For number crunching, just get those dual cores in there.

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