Warp wrote:
>   So what do people need so many cores for? Not everyone uses them for
> multithreaded rendering or video editing.

Photo editting. Video encoding. Background stuff like virus scans while 
you're trying to get actual work done. :-)

And server-type stuff: compiling, SQL servers, web servers, virtual 
machines, etc.

I often wind up using at least two cores, and not infrequently three.
Only while video encoding does something use more than three, altho I 
haven't had a distributed compile so big I could see it using up all the 
cores long enough for it to show.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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