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rbanffy
5 months ago
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Intel's Lion Cove Architecture Preview
You can always do like Sun and IBM and dilute the side channel in too many other threads to make it reliable. IIRC, both POWER10 and SPARC do 8 threads per core.
Symmetry
5 months ago
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It's also a matter of workload. For a database where threads are often waiting on trips to RAM then SMT can provide a very large boost to performance.
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