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Comment by Symmetry

9 years ago

It's also a problem with SMT[1]. The design cost is pretty small, it's a fairly straightforward extension of what an out of order CPU is already doing. But due to the concurrency issues debugging/verifying it is incredibly difficult.

[1]Simultanious MultiThreading, which is marketed by Intel under the name Hyperthreading when using two threads.

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