[CentOS] CentOS 4.4 smp on Dual Quad Core Xeon

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> 
> I was astonished at the results of running this on an HT system:
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> #use integer;
> $i = 0;
> while ($i < 10000)
>          {
>                  $j = 0;
>                  while ($j < 10000)
>                          {
>                                  ++$j;
>                          }
>                  ++$i;
>          }
> 
> [summer at bilby ~]$
> 
> 
> More precisely, two of them together:
> 
> time bin/bm.perl&time bin/bm.perl
> 
> I don't think anything written in Perl is very cache-friendly, but the
> HT system performed about as I'd expect dual-core to. 
> Cheers
> John
> 

Im confused.

And just what were the astonishing results please?

 - rh

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