On 31 Jul 08, at 10:49, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:11 AM, "Vinzent HĂśfler" > <[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.
Well, one of the points with OS/2 is that the OS handles thread (and process) switching rather efficiently (without burning too many resources just on doing this); something not necessarily true for other operating systems including their most recent versions. Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
