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For a desktop, not a server. Encoding goes marginally quicker, but I know of nothing else which is so extensively multithreaded as to use more than four cores.

Gaming hasn't really managed quad cores yet, and I personally don't spend every second of my day encoding video. Does photoshop benefit?

The question arises from frustration that my system just fell over partway through modelling a chain with most of its processor idle. I'm reasonably sure this is my fault for using XP, but nonetheless it has irritated me.
 
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Harpoon, the maritime warfare simulation, runs faster. Folding@Home runs faster, most Adobe applications runs faster, multi-threaded SuperPi runs stupidly quick.
 
Empire Total War is supposed to run faster, GTA4 is looks great in I7; detail levels are all up high and view distance is a good way off and FPS remains high
 
I think I've been contradicted on this before, but I thought parallel compiling tended to yeild slightly different code to linear compiling?
At least gentoo warns that the first thing to try if your software is misbehaving is to cut down on the optimisation flags and compile on one core

I'm glad it does have use :)
I think I shall be turning ht off.
 
Never really tested threads for compiling code code never had any really! but when i get my i7 then I will certyainly post if there is any marked difference!
 
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I think I've been contradicted on this before, but I thought parallel compiling tended to yeild slightly different code to linear compiling?
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Nah, it's fine. You've just got to ensure that your build system is set up correctly and dependencies between files are modelled correctly. Else you'll get wonky code :)
You do need to be careful with distributed building though, since you need to ensure that everyone has the same version of the compiler and headers etc. We checksum our tools before running them on remote machines to check for this sort of stuff...

I just hit build and compiled 6400 files on 60+ idle cores across my building :D
 
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