POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Idle dreams : Re: Idle dreams Server Time
9 Oct 2024 00:23:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Idle dreams  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 27 Aug 2009 16:42:58
Message: <4a96efd2@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> So there are hex-core Operons now, eh?
> 
>   I'm wondering: What do people do with so many cores? And I'm talking
>   about
> average people, not people who use POV-Ray 3.7 (who are a rather small
> minority).
> 
> [...]
> 
>   So what do people need so many cores for? Not everyone uses them for
> multithreaded rendering or video editing.

Many web browsers are now becoming multithreaded or using multiple
processes. So now you'll be able to use browser tabs, each with some
bloated Javascript monstrosity, without any of them slowing down!


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