[ubuntu-uk] Quad core CPU for Ubuntu, is it worth it?

[Michael Erskine]

On Tuesday 18 December 2007 20:21:46 Ian Pascoe wrote:
> 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.

Pretty much everything I write is multi-threaded (or at least forking 
multi-process) where appropriate. I think you'll find that your major 
applications (Firefox, OpenOffice, etc.) are similarly written.

Regards,
Michael Erskine.

-- 
UNIX is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody.



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