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Look on the bright side, George.
With multiple cores, a badly-written program is less likely to slow your entire machine down to a crawl as it consumes every last CPU cycle in sight. And with CPU cores not getting much faster, maybe some programmers will put a little more thought into the efficiency of their algorithms rather than hoping that "Moore's Law" will rescue their behinds.

Hey, I can dream... wink
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Look on the bright side, George.  Zogg | 06/06/07
Very true, good point. NT  georgeou | 06/06/07
Bad developers?  Mikael_z | 06/07/07
Don't be silly  georgeou | 06/07/07
Crappy support as usual I think.  Mikael_z | 06/08/07
MS software runs fast by comparison  georgeou | 06/08/07
MS Office is built into the Win OS.  Mikael_z | 06/09/07
MS Office works better running inside VMware on Linux  georgeou | 06/10/07
Bloat is bloat.  B.O.F.H. | 06/09/07
MS Office with more features is still much faster than Open Office  georgeou | 06/10/07
Yawn  Yagotta B. Kidding | 06/06/07
Thanks for that article George.  BillyG_n_SC | 06/06/07
It will catch on where performance is needed  georgeou | 06/06/07
Well written  dragosani | 06/06/07
I've asked about that  georgeou | 06/06/07
Games can parallelize fine  CobraA1 | 06/06/07
I was pointing out the success rate of current games  georgeou | 06/06/07
There's a lot more factors in a game  CobraA1 | 06/07/07
In a sense, already being done.  linux for me | 06/06/07
So far no games scale perfectly yet, or even close to it  georgeou | 06/06/07
No argument there....  linux for me | 06/06/07
It will take years for the change to happen  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/06/07
I've just looked around...  Zogg | 06/06/07
You didn't look hard enough then  Linux User 147560 | 06/06/07
History error  Yagotta B. Kidding | 06/06/07
Thanks for the correction...  Linux User 147560 | 06/06/07
Both of you are correct in a way  nucrash | 06/06/07
No, I *physcially* looked around.  Zogg | 06/06/07
Huh? Ever heard of AMD? (nt)  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/06/07
What about AMD????  Zogg | 06/06/07
About 70% of their current offerings  Linux User 147560 | 06/06/07
Almost all new CPUs are x64 from Intel and AMD  georgeou | 06/06/07
The difference is  Linux User 147560 | 06/06/07
You mean the difference is "marketing"  georgeou | 06/06/07
So the conversation *has* changed from underneath me wink  Zogg | 06/06/07
There are applications out there to answer your  Linux User 147560 | 06/06/07
Intel has more a lot more x64 chips than AMD  georgeou | 06/06/07
It doesn't make sense not to advertise  Linux User 147560 | 06/07/07
Office productivity apps  filker0 | 06/06/07
One minor quibble about clock speeds  Letophoro | 06/06/07
IBM's Power6 is 5 GHz or more  georgeou | 06/06/07
Good news for Computer Programmers  nucrash | 06/06/07
Ah Y2K... the disaster  Linux User 147560 | 06/06/07
Well much was done to stop Y2K  nucrash | 06/06/07
Though I am technically inclined  Linux User 147560 | 06/06/07
Though I am technically inclined  Linux User 147560 | 06/06/07
My point is that the era of exponential growth for clock ended in 2003  georgeou | 06/06/07
Power6  andrnils | 06/07/07
Yeah and it's called Itanium. Then AMD came along and forced Intel to  georgeou | 06/07/07
Overly optimistic  Mark Miller | 06/08/07
groomy future!  joemartn | 06/06/07
Have application really been getting faster with CPUs?  mark.hill.smt | 06/07/07
If you avoided Java and XML, then yes  georgeou | 06/07/07
RE: The death of single threaded development  jfalgout@... | 12/04/07

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