[X4U] Re: YIPPEE! - Quad 2.5 GHz

Eugene list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net
Sat Oct 22 02:35:22 PDT 2005


On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 08:40:56PM CDT, revDAVE <coolcat at hostalive.com> wrote:
: 
: Can someone explain if all or just some apps will take advantage of quad
: processors?

All OSX-native apps are multi-threaded and thus benefit from
any multi-proc system.  However, particular apps that do not
lend themselves well to threads won't see as much speed-ups
(e.g. emulators).  I want to say that Classic apps also suffer
from this very same problem, but I'm not sure.


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