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So, all these are only factors that the scheduler takes into account when determing which CPU an application thread runs in. The ultimate decision remains with the scheduler. If what you say is true, then a Windows OS should show no performance benefit for running two single-threaded application sim...

What are you talking about? What is parallel scheduling. In the test, we have 3 essentially single-threaded applications. The XP kernel controls which processor they run on. With HT disabled, there are only two visible processors, and only two applications can execute. With HT enabled, all 3 applica...

Windows XP does understand logical processors, it's one of the reasons HT works better on XP than on 2000. It is smart enough to realize the difference between a physical and a logical processor, and will try to schedule threads to a idle physical processor before using the second logical processor ...

For tests such as the simultaneous Norton scan, F@H and D3 test, can you provide the scores for all 3 applications. The problem here that I can see is that there are three CPU intensive applications, with HT disabled, there are only two cores for the OS to schedule to. Therefore, either the Norton o...