Ian Pascoe wrote: > Just to add a little more onto this thread. > > As Alan correctly suggests the kernel is clever enough to be able to run > multiple applications simultaneously on each of the seperate processor > cores. > > But the problem lies in that very few applications currently have been set > up to utilise multi threading - that is to say an application can spread > it's load over multiple cores within the same machine. > > If I've got this right, and I'm willing to be corrected, there aren't that > many libraries that are true multi threading - GCC is to have such a module > incorporated in the very near future and I believe that Python also has such > a library. And that I think is that for the main players. > > So, for the video and audio apps that Rob may be using, on a multi core > processor each app would / could be run on it's own core, but unless there > were some really intense apps in use, I doubt if the quad would be > stretched. > > E > >
I did actually read something on The Inquirer yesterday about the software not keeping up with the hardware, it said about the same sort of thing - multithreading software isn't widely available yet. Maybe next year will be the year of the multithreading Linux desktop? My other half is happy now, because I've decided to go for a cheaper dual core CPU she gets an upgrade too. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
