🚀 go-pugleaf

On 7 Apr 2000 07:49:49 GMT, root@[127.0.0.1] (Ricket) wrote:

>grinch@home.com (Mr. Grinch) wrote in
><8F0EAFB6Agrinchhomecom@24.64.2.57>: 
>>- make better use of resources like ram
>
>How ?
>
>>
>>- Scalability also relates to computer life span.  If you can use more
>>ram and cpu's to improve performance, then upgrades will get you further
>>before you are forced to buy a new system.  For the cost of a dual-cpu
>>MB and an SMP capable OS, my original P2-400 system is now dual P2-400,
>>and I'll upgrade to dual P3-700 when those chips are at the end of their
>>cycle.  This will be several times faster (with SMP) than the original
>>system and should last me 3 years from the date I bought it.   Not bad
>>when you consider how fast computers become obsolete.  SMP systems also
>>make great, fast servers when it's no longer fast enough to be your main
>>system.
>
>Fine. That's if you already have a multiprocessor board.
>Anyways, for games like flightsims do you really benefit from SMP ?
>I thought that the SMP implementation depended on whether you implemented
>multiple threads in your application.
>
>Does anyone know if any flightsims have a multi-thread implementation ?

Retail? Unlikely. Quake III Arena is supposed to be one of the first
if not only multithreaded retail game. The extra processor will still
help do other applications while your single threaded Flight Sim. runs
like network, OS services, etc. So you'll see some benefit even there.
- Mark A. Odell (remove thisisnotvalid. to reply via email)