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DateFri, 13 May 2005 14:49:25 -0400
FromScott Robert Ladd <>
SubjectRe: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability
Alan Cox wrote:
> HT for most users is pretty irrelevant, its a neat idea but the
> benchmarks don't suggest its too big a hit

On real-world applications, I haven't seen HT boost performance by more
than 15% on a Pentium 4 -- and the usual gain is around 5%, if anything
at all. HT is a nice idea, but I don't enable it on my systems.

..Scott
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