quad cores vs not.

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 09:46:20AM -0400, GCC Consulting wrote:
> > * Video Editing/Transcoding - One of the most CPU-intensive tasks
> > anyone will be doing on a desktop, editors are often multithreaded
> > and make use of multiple cores, but the -important- part, the
> > codec, is often a single core application, non-multithreaded.
> > The only multithreaded codec I can confirm is WM9. Even XViD is
> > singlethreaded. The codec is honestly where you want firepower to
> > count.

True, but if you're on a multicore machine, you're at least in a
position where the codec can have *its own entire CPU*, which still
helps.

> Love to see filePro able to make use of the multi-core processors.
> This is especially true of the windows version as one can't have
> background operations as the *nix version have. Even better, moving
> some of these background processes to other processors on a nix
> system.

If you're running SMP linux under filePro you will likely be in a
multiuser environment anyway, and so you *will* be using multiple
cores.

That's what multicore CPUs are actually for, IMNSHO.

> Or, how about a 64bit version of FP running on multiple cores? Now
> that's an interesting question, what additional features could be
> added to a 64bit version of fp?

<chuckle>

Cheers,
-- jra
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