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to the OS in those cases I think. A lot of stuff is serial, and there is no real way around it. So then it comes down to the OS being able to properly send the threads to the correct CPU. If you have 4 different serial apps running, the OS should move each one to its own core if needed. I know this is done to an extent now with some OS's, some doing it better than others, but it should be something the OS makers put ore time into.
But what the software makers can do is make each of those serial task into their own thread. This would allow a piece of software to still be multi threaded. Maybe not to the extent that would be fastest to the user, but every little bit helps.
Hard drives have gotten a lot faster in the last 2 years, and in the next 5 years they should make a pretty big leap forward (assuming solid state drives can get into a price range that competes with platter based HD's). But a lot of types of data crunching don't require heavy HD access. Take games for instance, very very few games are multi threaded at this point in time. But its something that game developers should be really looking into. Being able to offload each of the big task (game engine, graphics, sound) onto a different core could show a huge speed improvement. - Posted by: Stuka Posted on: 05/25/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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