Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Nov 2006 20:10 UTC, submitted by Governa
"We might be ahead of Apple's product release cycle, and we've probably violated our Mac Pro's warranty, but we just had to see what the Apple Mac Pro could do when populated with a pair of Intel's brand-new quad-core Xeon 5355 processors," Daniel A. Begun reports for CNET. They conclude: "Unless you do work normally relegated to high-end workstations, perform massively multitasking workloads, or just want the bragging rights, eight cores is definitely overkill - at least for now."
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RE[6]: Yeah, for now!
by kamil_chatrnuch on Thu 16th Nov 2006 00:05
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Without knowing anything about that benchmark there's nothing that can be said about it.
And you can easily control where threads are executed on Windows too, with SetThreadAffinityMask() and SetProcessAffinityMask(). I haven't done any heavy performance testing on Vista 64, which I'm running right now, but I'm certainly not having any problems. Windows is well prepared for the multi-core future.