AW: general question about equipment

["Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill" <rs@moinlabs.de>]

Software needs to be optimized to work on more than one core (or CPU). Most
software is not, Ableton Live version 6.0 is.
If you run e.g. Live 5.0 on a dual core machine, then it (and all of its
plugins) will only make use of one core.
This may still give you a performance improvement over a single core of the
same type, because your driver stack might be running on the other core.
        
        Rainer

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Qua Veda [mailto:qua@oregon.com] 
> Gesendet: Freitag, 3. August 2007 17:20
> An: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Betreff: RE: general question about equipment
> 
>  I believe that Kris is actually more of an expert on this, 
> but my understanding is that s/w does not need to be 
> "optimized" in any way to take
> advantage of dual-core Intel processors.   These are not like 
> using two
> totally separate processors on a motherboard.  These are 
> single processors with multiple cores. I believe the 
> microcode in the processor and chipset take care of routing 
> information to take advantage of them.