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On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Jack Smith wrote:
On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 16:38 -0700, Michael wrote:
I don't understand people's obsession with single apps using multiple
cores of their processor. Sure, in some cases it's nice, but I usually
am running several programs, and even operating systems, at a time. I
don't need a single program to use up all my CPU power. I'd much rather
have it divided between several apps.
The obsession comes from people who use their computer as a dedicated
machine for a single application running at a time and need/want as much
performace as possible. Read that as gamers playing first-person type
games.
That makes a lot of sense. I'm sure I'd love to be able to fully utilize
a quad-core chip in such a game. So I'll bet the developers are thinking
about this too.
The truth, by the way, is that I never play video games. One of my
friends pointed out that it is a generational effect because when I grew
up there were no video games. If I were 10 years younger it would be
different (I'm 49 years old). My son likes them. I think they are pretty
cool, especially the stuff I'm seeing advertised on TV these days.
Mike
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