On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 12:50:49PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > One sort of urban legend that's out there in the Linux audio > community has to do with the value of a dual vs. single processor > systems and how much they can help in this area. > > The argument seems to go that on a DP machine one processor will > handle the GUI/OS/drivers and the second processor will handle the audio > application. However, no one (that I know of anyway) has really measured > this quantitatively and shown it to be true. (It might be to subjective > anyway...) Any thoughts?
GUIs are memory pigs much more than they are CPU pigs - I doubt that throwing extra processor power at them will do much good. Nathan Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
