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Омид Рахмат,  11 апреля 2001 Страница:   1 2 3 4

Introduction

I write this article ope et consilio, with your feedback and guidance. So, before you read any further, those of you expecting a burst of tables and charts and benchmarks should probably stop right now, and avoid yourself the pain of having to write emails that tell me how I wasted your time when you were looking for "facts", and "information", although I prefer to see the reading of Second Hand Smoke as a sort of errores Ulixis, an odyssey filled with pretentious Latin turns of phrase, and jejune opinion. Be that as it may, this is more about what you think as much as what I think, and not necessarily based on any empirical discovery on my part. That's why the site is called Tom's Hardware Guide, and not Omid's Meandering Musings. Tom does the clever stuff.

Glad we could get that sorted out.

On with the show!

There was a barrage of email, and all of it was very polite, and good. Even in dissent. Frankly the worst I heard was some dualie site that referred to me as a lackey of Tom. Now, for those of you unfamiliar with the exact meaning of the word lackey I offer Webster's take on it:

Lackey - noun - a male servant of low rank, or a servile follower, and even, toady.

I have four words for those snide dualies:
Prudens quaestio dimidium scientiae.

Dualies Strike Back

Now, Isen Kusima, a Be OS multi-processor user, put it bluntly, but acceptably:

"I read your article about Multi-CPU Cheap enough. I found this article very shallow, and just touching the subject in one side."

Mr. Kusima went on to argue that Windows is not the only OS game when it comes to multi-processing. I can handle shallow, people.

More expert opinion came from Ron Olsen, a lead system engineer at Doubleclick, said,

"I just read your article regarding multiple processors in the home, and I too have been buying and building mp-only boxes since NT4 became available, and going forward to Win2000 and beyond. I believe your information is a tad incorrect ... *any* application can take advantage of an mp box; it's not the application's responsibility, it's the operating system."

So, let's agree on a couple of things - Windows NT, 2000, XP Professional, Be OS, OS X, Linux, whatever other OS that may support multiple processors, will make a difference. Nevertheless, that difference can sometimes be limited to just shifting a task from one processor to another. An application, if written for a dual processor environment and written well, may actually see a performance improvement without multiple tasks. A bit of a generalization, but maybe every one of us needs to define multi-processing, the dualie lifestyle, as the territory of a cluttered screen. We have a lot going on. That's a little different to taking a system and measuring it for something like raw frame rates in a single game. So, I get that.

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