On 17/11/2010 11:55 PM, Darren New wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> Aside from embarassingly parallel tasks like raytracing,
>
> That and media encoding are the only programs I've used in a decade that
> peg more than one CPU.

How about stuff like web servers and database engines? Granted that 
tends to be limited more by I/O then computer power, but don't those 
routinely use multiple cores? (Obviously these are not usually *desktop* 
applications...)

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