On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Daniel Ankers prattled cheerily: > I think the plan is that it will be rare to start a thread on the second > core - it would probably be dedicated to audio and/or video decoding. As > there is no cache snooping between the cores on the PP chips there will be > a number of restrictions on tasks that need to communicate across the > cores.
Ick. OK, scratch any chance of easily getting audio decoding simultaneously on both cores unless we want to flush the cache a lot... -- `We're sysadmins. We deal with the inconceivable so often I can clearly see the need to define levels of inconceivability.' --- Rik Steenwinkel
