-
Competitor rules
Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.
Lynnfield naming scheme announced.
- Thread starter Natima
- Start date
LMAO
Bulldozer...it said on wiki that it is plan to ship at 2011. In the meantime, we don have much choice but to embrace HT or Turbo.
Damn it, when will home application and games take full advantage of muti thread... Is it that expansive to muti thread applications???
Damn it, when will home application and games take full advantage of muti thread... Is it that expansive to muti thread applications???
No it's just tricky to do, and if you're a programmer who thinks that it's not then you don't know what you're doing! I took a course at uni which went through the many disasters which had come from multi-threading, and this one was pretty nasty:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25#Problem_description
When you have threads which interact with each other you need to make damn sure you know how they do it. Since games in particular are complex, figuring out how to make them interact safely can be a nightmare. As a result, programmers often avoid doing this since it's time consuming to write correctly and a pain in the arse to debug!
(btw I work in the games biz, and our game has multi-threading coming out of its ears...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25#Problem_description
When you have threads which interact with each other you need to make damn sure you know how they do it. Since games in particular are complex, figuring out how to make them interact safely can be a nightmare. As a result, programmers often avoid doing this since it's time consuming to write correctly and a pain in the arse to debug!
(btw I work in the games biz, and our game has multi-threading coming out of its ears...)
That's an unfortunate example ^, medicine is something which needs a lot of care taken over it.
6 core i7, *shakes head*. Combining the processing power of the cores to run a single thread sounds like a far better idea, though I'd love to know how that's hoped to work. It's a solid alternative to having to write multi-threaded programs, and a more thorough answer than the self-overclocking i7 systems.
6 core i7, *shakes head*. Combining the processing power of the cores to run a single thread sounds like a far better idea, though I'd love to know how that's hoped to work. It's a solid alternative to having to write multi-threaded programs, and a more thorough answer than the self-overclocking i7 systems.