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How good is hyperthreading?
Author: Agner Fog Date: 2009-10-30 09:48
StuffMaster wrote:
Actually, hyperthreading *is* SMT. It's just Intel's name for it.

I would say that hyperthreading is a subset of simultaneous multithreading.

If you are running two threads in two different cores you have simultaneous multithreading, but not hyperthreading.

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