On 19 Nov 2004 at 14:23, Alin Flaider wrote: > > 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.
In any case it's main failing is display windows management and thumbnail cashing/management. Use it to browse a sub with 8k PEF files in it, LOL It would be nice if V2 is better if not just for the poor souls who cant afford an Adobe product that can utilize the free Adobe Camera RAW convertor. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
