Thread management

Interesting article on the Bulldozer architecture today : http://techreport.com/articles.x/21865

So I thought, why not try this on an i7 as well.

So I tested it with the Euler3D BENCHMARK like they do with 4 different configurations.



Pretty interesting results.
8 cores is fastest, but not much faster due to diminishing returns probably from contention or the algorithm.
0F is slowest definitely because of contention.
55 affinity is faster than the windows scheduler. I noticed that not any one core every hit 100% while the windows scheduler was scheduling stuff, so the time loss could be from threads switching cores.