| has gloss | eng: Super-threading is a type of multithreading that enables different threads to be executed by a single processor without truly executing them at the same time. This qualifies it as time-sliced or temporal multithreading rather than simultaneous multithreading (SMT). It is motivated by the observation that the processor's functional units are occasionally left idle while executing instructions from one thread due to long-latency events. Super-threading seeks to make use of the otherwise unused processor cycles by executing instructions from another thread until the previous thread is ready to resume execution. |