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To: SilentZ who wrote (365279)1/3/2008 1:16:32 PM
From: combjelly  Respond to of 1571808
 
"One of the more tech-savvy posters can correct me, but I think you're confusing multi-core with multi-threading... "

He is talking about the difficulty of writing multi-threaded programs. But, as you point out, there is some benefit from multiple cores even without multi-threaded applications. However, there is a limit beyond which more cores can be useful.



To: SilentZ who wrote (365279)1/3/2008 1:17:52 PM
From: bentway  Respond to of 1571808
 
No, I meant multiple cores that require multiple threads to be fully utilized. Only a very few games take limited advantage of them.


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