I have a quad core processor and I want to know or coreldraw x4 is multithreading??
Gerard Metrailler said:But on the good news, that leaves the other cores available for other tasks and for the OS to run ;-)
Oh the 'if you multitask so will the computer method'. I remember the days when multitasking meant having a *** and drinking a coffee while waiting for the computer to free up from a printing task. (*** being the bunch of sticks used to burn witches and the slang for cigarette not doing the naughty while drinking coffee... Necessary to qualify as I know how sic some of ya are after all these years.)
Gérard you could say what a huge deal moving Draw from a programming paradigm that has lasted 14 versions to the new world of 64bit, multi cores and GPU processing is. There is likely a good story in all that worth someone writing a tale. If they were all taken on in one go that must be a total software rewrite virtually equal to what, 1/2 of all the development today?
Good article on this http://www.ddj.com/development-tools/212201710?pgno=1
"Which is a big deal, because the chipmakers have essentially said that the job of enforcing Moore's Law is now a software problem. They will concentrate on putting more and more cores on a die, and it's up to you to recraft your software to take advantage of the parallel-processing capabilities of their chips."
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Gerard Metrailler: But on the good news, that leaves the other cores available for other tasks and for the OS to run ;-) Oh the 'if you multitask so will the computer method'. I remember the days when multitasking meant having a *** and drinking a coffee while waiting for the computer to free up from a printing task. (*** being the bunch of sticks used to burn witches and the slang for cigarette not doing the naughty while drinking coffee... Necessary to qualify as I know how sic some of ya are after all these years.) Gérard you could say what a huge deal moving Draw from a programming paradigm that has lasted 14 versions to the new world of 64bit, multi cores and GPU processing is. There is likely a good story in all that worth someone writing a tale. If they were all taken on in one go that must be a total software rewrite virtually equal to what, 1/2 of all the development today? Good article on this http://www.ddj.com/development-tools/212201710?pgno=1 "Which is a big deal, because the chipmakers have essentially said that the job of enforcing Moore's Law is now a software problem. They will concentrate on putting more and more cores on a die, and it's up to you to recraft your software to take advantage of the parallel-processing capabilities of their chips."
Gerard Metrailler: But on the good news, that leaves the other cores available for other tasks and for the OS to run ;-)
There is obviously some more scope for making better use of multi core processors. Draw's developers aren't stupid they know where that scope is. But I doubt we will see it applied to a lens function that is used by a few people once in a blue moon. You can bet ya life Corel have this mapped out and sussed way beyond what our limited imagination of the code is on this side of the mirror.