With the advent of multithreading programming the old paradigm of yielding control to OS became obsolete. The problem is that a very processor intensive worker thread holds the processor up to 100% load and makes the entire system especially the low priority user interface low responsive. The new virtual multi-processor schemes recognize the intensive threads and allocates it on a quasi-parallel processor pipe leaving some resources to the OS. Real multi-processor machines do a better job but users should not expect a linear power increase. Servus, Alin
Herb wrote: HC> dual processors makes the machine usable while this is happening. the HC> programmer who wrote this didn't know a lot about Windows programming as one HC> of the rules since Windows started was to yield control occasionally, even HC> under the newest versions of Windows. i can only assume that Mac users have HC> the same types of problems since the program was badly written. HC> Herb.... HC> ----- Original Message ----- HC> From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HC> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HC> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 1:44 AM HC> Subject: Re: Pentax Laboratory Batch Conversions >> It works but it hogs just about every resources, you just have >> to walk away from the computer until it's done.
