I get your point, but by turning off HT or only running processes on 1 of 2 threads you can ensure that only a single thread is executing on a single core at a

I get your point, but by turning off HT or only running processes on 1 of 2 threads you can ensure that only a single thread is executing on a single core at a time. Your point about cache misses is well taken. HT is good overall.