[LAU] CPUs for low latency

[Jonathan E. Brickman]

>> With my old P4 (single core) HT restricted my AI to 64/2
>> with the ocasional xrun, HT off would allow solid 16/2 performance. My
>> new i5 does not have HT, so I am not able to compare.
> +1 for testing + measuring.
>
>
> Anyway. In most cases the CPU is not the limiting factor. In the vast
> majority of cases some power-saving (bus-freq, southbridge, SMI) or
> weird graphics-cards, wifi, etc and/or their drivers are orders of
> magnitude more limiting.
>
> 2c,
> robin

And then there's design efforts like the Liquorix project; and also 
CPU-optimized kernels.  I have recently been compiling CPU-optimized 
versions of Liquorix kernels...yum :-)

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