From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9 support for Intel i850e chip set
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 08:57:05 -0700
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On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:

> there's no problem with plan 9 and hyperthreading, it just works.
> however, it doesn't buy you much as far as i can tell.

seems like you need the Intel compiler to make it work if it is going to
work, and even then, it doesn't work in many cases.

All that work Intel did on hyperthreading, and it is hard to see what it
bought us. It did buy hype, though, so maybe what is really is is:
hype-r-threading.

ron