On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:11 AM, "Vinzent Höfler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a desktop system with hundreds of processors in the next few years or so. > Practical > benchmarks these days have shown, that a Quad-Core gains almost nothing > compared to a cheaper Dual-Core in most practical circumstances.
That's probably due to the currently available software all being single threaded. I remember back in the day when I used OS/2. Even though it ran on a single core system, it felt a lot more responsive that todays OS's, because most apps and the OS + WPS used multiple threads extensively. Quicker visual feedback played wonders to the illusion that it was fast. Now with todays multi-core systems it will not simply be an illusion. Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/
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