cores and threads

Pete Brunet peter.brunet at oracle.com
Wed Sep 18 21:43:08 UTC 2013


If a machine has 4 cores and 8 threads will the jdk8 build run faster
than one with 4 cores and 4 threads?  If so would it be a 2x decrease in
build time?  Would the build explicitly take advantage of the
hyper-threading or would any increase in performance be a side effect?



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