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Re^2: Multi-core and the future

by Gavin (Archbishop)
on Sep 04, 2008 at 16:05 UTC ( [id://709050]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Multi-core and the future
in thread Multi-core and the future

"I'd be much happier if they efficiently used one processor"

There's the rub, they don't seem to be able too, ever tried running Photoshop and Dreamweaver together, I don't know for sure but would imagine they would run better and faster on multicore.

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Re^3: Multi-core and the future
by SuicideJunkie (Vicar) on Sep 09, 2008 at 18:43 UTC
    The question is, would you rather have the application be single-threaded and dragging just one of your processors through the mud, or have it be greedy and multiprocessor aware, so that it can drag all your processors down at the same time? :)

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