It's always a very good idea to test multi-threaded
code on an SMP machine, since it increases the chances
of race conditions, deadlocks, etc, occurring.
However, is it good enough to test on a Pentium with
hyperthreading, rather than a real SMP machine? How
close is hyperthreading to real SMP?
Later,
Kenn
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