[mesa-users] Reccomendations on hardware to run MESA

Francis Timmes fxt44 at mac.com
Mon Feb 23 20:00:54 EST 2015


hyperthreading is on by default in yosemite. 
i have to see what black magic nvram commands may disable it.

fxt


> On Feb 23, 2015, at 5:54 PM, Bill Paxton <paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> 
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> On Feb 23, 2015, at 4:47 PM, Francis Timmes wrote:
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>> i’ll see about running a few hyperthread test cases on my 12-core mac.
> 
> That will be interesting --- I'd expect hyperthreading to help jobs whose threads are blocked for cache misses a lot.
> The better the code does at using the cache, the less the opportunity for hyperthreading to help.
> So I hope it doesn't help much with mesa. ;D
> 
> -b





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