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This is just too funny; Andy's post popped up right when I was about to post a note about this: >>> July 13th - Bidule 0.95 released >>> A new version of Bidule has been released. >>> New Features: >>> - Added preliminary support for multicore processing... // (plus >>> a lot more) As I a have many computers with both dual and single processors I can truly say that I have experienced a giant leap in performance every time a piece of software gets optimized for dual/multi core/cpu. Logic was first four years ago, recently Ableton and now Bidule. Bad news for me is that the dual cpu machine I have is stationary while the laptops I use for concerts are single cpu boxes. I can't wait until having saved up enough for getting an Intel Core 2 Duo box for my Bidule/Mobius live looping patch... Per On 4 aug 2007, at 13.02, andy butler wrote: > My experiments on a dual core machine (winXP) showed the following. > > Using Bidule (not optimised for dual core) it becomes apparent that > all the Bidule processing is done by one of the cores. > > It also seems that the graphics for the operating system are handled > in just one of the cores. > > WinXP chooses which processes to put onto which core, there doesn't > seem to be a way to change that. > > If the Bidule processing ends up on the same core as the graphic > processing, > then Bidule has less capability. > > I guess it depends on the order that you start your applications, > seemed like I could restart Bidule and get it onto the core > which had the lowest load. > > andy butler > > disclaimer > I don't have any specific knowledge about xp in this respect, > just looking at the 'performance' tab of the Widows task manager. > Krispen Hartung wrote: >> You are correct. Software optimization for dual core is a bonus to >> take advantage of additional duo core features, but not necessary. >> The system does a lot of things in the background between the two >> cores, running the OS and applications that make it much more >> efficient than a solo core system. Intel wouldn't release a >> product like this if it's power could only be unleashed by special >> software optimization. That would be ridiculous. >> Kris