Upgraded from 2 cores to 4 cores...

On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:37:32 +0800, Man-wai Chang
wrote:


Can't really feel a difference....

This isn't surprising. Few programs can actually use more than one
core. Where multiple cores comes in very nice is when you try to do
more than one thing at once.

Think of it like a freeway. Adding cores does nothing about the speed
limit, it just adds lanes.

On Nov 3, 11:31*pm, Loren Pechtel
wrote:
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:37:32 +0800, Man-wai Chang

wrote:

Can't really feel a difference....

This isn't surprising. *Few programs can actually use more than one
core. *Where multiple cores comes in very nice is when you try to do
more than one thing at once.

Think of it like a freeway. *Adding cores does nothing about the speed
limit, it just adds lanes.

True, but until Microsoft or somebody, even Intel, rights a compiler
that will automatically make parallel (or try to) a program written
linearly, the many cores model will be stalled.

RL

In article , RayLopez99 wrote:
On Nov 3, 11:31=A0pm, Loren Pechtel
wrote:
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:37:32 +0800, Man-wai Chang

wrote:

Can't really feel a difference....

This isn't surprising. =A0Few programs can actually use more than one
core. =A0Where multiple cores comes in very nice is when you try to do
more than one thing at once.

Think of it like a freeway. =A0Adding cores does nothing about the speed
limit, it just adds lanes.

True, but until Microsoft or somebody, even Intel, rights a compiler
that will automatically make parallel (or try to) a program written
linearly, the many cores model will be stalled.

RL
You can already pull up Windows Task Manager and set which cores you wish you
linear apps to run on. So if you have a core that is not, or that is
multicore, you can set the Affinity to which cores you want a specific app to
utilize.