Originally Posted by
sbm12
I'm not entirely sure this is true, as I don't know of any of those tools that are written these days for multi-processor support.
If the apps are threaded, though, wouldn't the scheduler handle the chores of distributing the threads among the cores without the app specifically having to be written for multiple processors? Of course, single-threaded apps will see no substantial benefit, but could see a little speed up if other processes were being run on an alternate core.
Cheers.