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To: bentway who wrote (365251)1/3/2008 12:44:26 PM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1571806
 
>Intel is developing chips now with multiple cores that no one knows how to write programs for. That's why every new computer you buy is supposed to be X times faster, but seems to be the same speed as your last one.

One of the more tech-savvy posters can correct me, but I think you're confusing multi-core with multi-threading... Multi-core seems to help a lot. I'm typing on a dual-core machine right now and it's significantly faster than the old single-core machine I had running at pretty much the same frequency.

-Z