Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Processor Recommendation
From: Robert Jonsson (robert.jonsson_AT_dataductus.se)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 23:19:29 EEST
tisdagen den 10 juni 2003 22.16 skrev Andrew Burgess:
> >Hyperthreading - the new fancy P4's have it. Does it do anything on
> >linux? I saw some benchmarks where it really sped up video encoding (on
> >windows), how similar to sound processing is this?
>
> Alan Cox says HT provides 0-30% speedup.
There was a recent thread on the Jack mailinglist where it seemed likely that
latency would suffer when HT was enabled, if I read the thread right... It
may had to do with using HT _and_ dual processors though, can't remember...
/Robert
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