FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Will a faster processor enhance my computer speed?
Old Dec 5, 2008 | 2:27 pm
  #8  
brp
FlyerTalk Evangelist
All eyes on you!
20 Years on Site
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: SJC
Programs: AA EXP, BA Silver, Hyatt Globalist, Hilton diamond, Marriott Platinum
Posts: 34,038
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.
brp is offline