First off, the OS takes care of sharing threads across CPUs. If you have multiple threads, you will get a boost from SMP (however big or small this might be based on lots of factors). This fact alone means that Safari and other browsers are definitely using both processors. Nothing has to be "written right" to use SMP - it just has to have multiple threads. Thats what is so nice about SMP in Mac OS X.
And Mozilla.org Mac products don't use Quartz in the rendering engine. They use Quickdraw. -Josh Aas On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:35:58 -0600, Ess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you'd like, you could purchase me a dual 1.8 G5 and i'll try to > confirm! 9^) > > Scott > > > On Jun 22, 2004, at 11�58 P, Jim Witte wrote: > > > From the insanely-great.com article comments: > > > > "This broswer just simply SMOKES every other broswer on OS X for speed > > on my Dual 1.8 G5. It'as almost like this is the only browser that > > makes use of the second CPU" > > > > *Does* Gecko use the second CPU (or does Quartz, OS X do it for you > > perhaps)? If the OS is automatically shuttling threads off to the > > second processor, I'd think Safari would benefit too, and even IE, if > > it's written right.. > > > > Jim > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Camino mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/camino > > > > _______________________________________________ > Camino mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/camino > _______________________________________________ Camino mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/camino
