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[Elmer Phud]

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Re: Highlights/Lowlights

I think what that's telling us is what Intel has been saying all along. For threaded applications expect to see good gains in performance. For non-threaded apps then don't expect much if any. The added good news is that unlike Win2K, XP show no performance degradation when HT is enabled for non-threaded apps. Still to be seen is the effect of HT on multiple apps, threaded or non threaded, running concurrently. New benchmarks will be needed for that. Droids will squeal to the high heavens when P4 beats Hammer.

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