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On 1 Jun 2002, Louis Garcia wrote:

> I was just thinking about that. Do you now if this has a real speed
> improvement?

intel claims up to 30-40% but i've never tried it. the bottleneck is that
they share fsb and cache but in any case having an extra exec-path might
help more than demage. this is for your sleepless nights :

http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/2002/volume06issue01/art01_hyper/vol6iss1_art01.pdf




- Davide


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