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To: combjelly who wrote (68927)	1/25/2002 4:27:35 PM
From: TGPTNDR	Read Replies (1) of 275872

CJ, Re: <For stuff that is heavily threaded, it should help.> Yes. It always helps if you can prevent stalls or continue to work around them. But it's not going to help the misprediction pipeline flush problem. It's going to make it substantially worse, IMO, for some important real world tasks. There was an argument around a couple years ago that the compiler would be smart enough to handle the threading -- kind of like the VLIW argument. LOL! Any threading a compiler can figure out is going to be relatively trivial(IMO) -- and the vast majority of benefit of multi-threading comes when there are large waits involved(think OLTP) and don't normally help the kinds of things that maximize CPU usage ( not the benchmark standard style). But you know all this, 'cause you're in the business. tgptndr

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