[Cryptography] I'll give the right answers to the right questions

[Howard Chu]

Ryan Carboni wrote:
> in fact this may be to some degree done with hyper threading, although unsure 
> why it is apparently limited to two threads per CPU, although it may require 
> multiple instruction decoding

You could look at Sun/Oracle Niagara which was pretty much 8-way 
hyperthreading per core. Ultimately it didn't have good enough single-thread 
performance, regardless of how embarrassingly parallel your workloads.

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