Meanings
nounhyperthreading (uncountable)
- uncountablecomputingA form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.
The scope of hyperthreading instructions is not covered in this book.
2005, James Leiterman, 32/64-Bit 80x86 Assembly Language Architecture, page 4571 more example
There are some cases where hyperthreading actually degrades CPU performance, especially when CPU utilization is high.
2010, Mike Laverick, VMware VSphere 4 Implementation, page 307
Origin
From hyper- + threading, coined as a trademark (Hyper-Threading Technology) by Intel.
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