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Re: tcatm's 4-way SSE2 for Linux 32/64-bit is in 0.3.10

Quote from: ArtForz on August 21, 2010, 04:56:31 PM (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=820.msg10609#msg10609)

- AMD K10: 2 128bit units
- intel nehalem: 3 128bit units

This probably explains why hyperthreading increases performance with -4way. If three SSE2 units is excessive, then hyperthreading would help keep them all busy.

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