Re: OT Dual core CPUs versus faster single core CPUs?

On Thu, 01 May 2008 20:05:51 GMT, John Doe <jdoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


Not trying to decide which is better for everybody. Just interested
in the difference between multiple core CPUs and faster single core
CPUs.

Are there any mainstream applications that would benefit from one
and the other?

I do run into cases where an app totally pegs one of the cores,
sometimes due to a crash, sometimes due to a not particularly well
written application that is a resource hog. Regardless, even with one
core completely occupied, the other is free to respond to user and O/S
events whereas a single core setup, even a very fast one, would
probably be quite unresponsive and might require hitting The Big Red
Switch (or the equivalent nowadays) to regain control.

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Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
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