Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "What's Behind Port Smash? - Computerphile" video.

  1. + @sebastianelytron8450  Yeah, this was annoying me no end throughout the video... Don't get me wrong, I think they did know but decided to use the term "hyperthreading" because people are so used to it...
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  2. + @christopherg2347  There's a difference between multithreading and simultanous multithreading. You can multithread with a core that only have a single thread by doing context switching. But then you're not running two or more threads simultanously pr say.
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  3. + @kmambu5950  Not without reason. Intel where the first company that released consumer products with SMT, so it makes sense that you first experienced Intels implimentation of it. Or at least heard about it first. SMT has existed in various forms since the fifties, but most of that time it was just prototypes or research chips etc. Not comercial products.
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  4. I can't believe that such a smart guy can be so ignorant as to treat hyperthreading as the name of the technology when it's just a specific implimentation of SMT that is called hyperthreading. After all, other processors like IBMs Power9 or AMDs Ryzen series both have SMT (simultaneous multithreading) just like Intels Skylake and Kabylake processors do. But they do not use the term hyperthreading as that is the name of the specific intel implementation of it. SMT has been around since the 1950s. But it's correct that Intel was the first one that launched a commercial desktop processor with SMT.
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