I too was once under the misapprehension that HT was "just smarter scheduling", until I took a university course in microarchitecture that explained how Simulta

I too was once under the misapprehension that HT was "just smarter scheduling", until I took a university course in microarchitecture that explained how Simultaneous Multithreading actually works in terms of maximising utilisation of various types of execution units. I wonder why "smarter scheduling" became a common understanding.