On Fri, 4 May 2007 20:35:21 +0200, "Damien Pollet"
<damien.pollet at gmail.com> wrote:

> Windows would probably report 100% CPU usage, but I doubt the CPU
> would go twice as fast... HT means a single core can run instructions
> from two threads simultaneously, not that the transistors are
> partitioned into two half-cores. Surely all computing units are shared
> among threads?

No, with hyperthreading, the BIOS basically builds two virtual processors,
and each one gets half of the CPU speed.

Later,
Jon

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