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To: Scumbria who wrote (87407)1/15/2000 5:22:00 PM
From: Process Boy  Respond to of 1572604
 
Scumbria - <For single threaded applications, Willamette will not be much better than PIII or K7. Having said that, we will have to see what Intel has provided in the way of hardware acceleration for multi-threading.>

Yep. We will have to see what exactly Willamette brings to the table.

PB



To: Scumbria who wrote (87407)1/16/2000 12:37:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572604
 
Scumbria - RE: "For single threaded applications, Willamette will not be much better than PIII or K7. Having said that, we will have to see what Intel has provided in the way of hardware acceleration for multi-threading."

What do you mean by "hardware acceleration of multi-threading"?

That a single processor can do what two processors could do in an multi-threaded OS?


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