Is multithreading better than multi-core? Is multi-core better thanmultithreading? One might as well ask whether a diesel engine is betterthan four-wheel drive! The best vehicle for a given ...

Simultaneous multi-threading is a useful performance tool for processor designers, but it doesn't have the same benefit that adding a full core does. Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist although ...

Multithreading makes sense whenever an application with some degree of concurrency needs to be run on a processor that would otherwise find itself stalled a significant portion of the time while ...