In article <39900888@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

>   A more important issue would be if the OS can distribute several different
> programs among the processors. That is, if I run two CPU-intensive programs,
> does the OS run one of the with one processor and the other program in the
> other processor?
>   I think that's the most usual use of multitasking.

If multiple applications support multiprocessing this will be the case
(pre-emptive multithreading on Mac OS requires a specific API to create the
pre-emptive threads).  Also, if only one application supports it, it can use
the entire second processor while the other traditional applications share
one processor.


    Thorsten


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