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Quick clarification and correction on this. With the Intel dual core processor, there is only one cache (not two), but it is 2MB and shared by each core. Apparently, this is more efficent than each core having its own cache, where they couldn't combine memory to server one or both cores. Also, there is some benefit from using the dual core processor with just one app because some elements of the application will be handled by one core, and other elements by the other core. The benefits will be especially evident for those apps that have been written to utilize Intel's hyperthreading technology, which has been around for some time, but the greatest benefit will be in applications that are modified to take advantage of the dual cores. In short, for those of us using VST hosts and VST plugins, we won't be able to predict what level of improvement we would see. It would depend on how the applications are written. For those of you using several applications at the same time, you would see an obvious improvement. Kris > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Art Simon" <simart@gmail.com> > It seems like you have to run two or more applications simultaneously > to see the big speed improvements. I wonder if a VST host and VSTs > count as separate applications? My guess is no. I think you would see > a dramatic improvement if you are using two music applications with > something like ReWire. > > On 1/7/06, Kris Hartung <khartung@cableone.net> wrote: >> Suppose you are burning a copy of Mr. Bungle's first CD (which would >> break >> any machine), and also watching a 1.2 GB mpeg video of our favorite porn >> flick, "Zelda Does Zurich", which you've just downloaded from eMule. :) >> It's not the best multi-tasking example, I admit, unless you also have >an >> external CD burner, in addition to your notebooks DVD/CD player bay. > Another >> good one is having your Nortaon anti-virus program run a full scan, and >> trying to do "anything else". That always pisses me off. >> >> Kris >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Travis Hartnett" <travishartnett@gmail.com> >> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> >> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 12:37 AM >> Subject: Re: Intel's New Dual Core Mobile Processor Announced >> >> >> The real trick is how you have both a CD and a DVD in the drive at the >> same time... >> >> On 1/6/06, Kris Hartung <khartung@cableone.net> wrote: >> > >> > Keith Kressin, director of marketing for Intel's mobile products >group, >> says >> > that games should look better on Core Duo notebooks but that > multitasking >> > would benefit the most, as our tests show. "The more demanding the >> > task--ripping a CD while watching a movie, for instance--the better >the >> > performance improvement," he says. >> > >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Art Simon > simart@null.net > http://art.simon.tripod.com > http://artsimon.iuma.com > > > >