And "taking advantage" of HT is very close in meaning to "make use", so taking the answer of Mr. Maddox literally, you get "CoD makes use of HT, but not much.".
A question along the lines of "Does CoD get a performance boost when HT is enabled?" could have resulted in a more useful answer. If the answer to that question would have been "not much", you would have at least known you'd get a 1% benefit or more.
If I'm playing devil's advocate too much in your eyes, I'm sorry. I just think it's important to not read too much into the information we're given and don't see things that aren't there.