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Altera_Forum
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Honored ContributorNumber of processors used during compilation
Hello, can someone explain this Compilation Message: Info (11104): Parallel Compilation has detected 12 hyper-threaded processors. However, the extra hyper-threaded processors will not be used ...
Altera_ForumHonored Contributor
Honored ContributorI noticed that too on my compiles. I believe hyper-threading does not improve performance and may hurt it. Just googling "hyper-thread performance" brings up stuff like so:
http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2014/07/02/hyper-threading-may-be-killing-your-parallel-performance-578/ So it probably actually helps performance by not using them.
