If the new system is anything like this list, you should expect a significant slowdown as the CPUs argue amongst themselves as to who gets to do what, when and how not to do something. I have not seen a significant advantage to single process geda tools execution. I suspect that some of the backend graphics might benefit. It is while doing long CPU intensive operations (FPGA synthesis) having the other cores free is really appreciated. George On 01/26/2011 09:26 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
There is going to be a new desktop on my desktop at work! It is going to be the the usual upgrade in computational power: More memory, more storage, more speed. Speed is supposed to be delivered by four cores (AMD athlon). My current desktop contains just one such core. Can I expect a spectacular speed-up of gschem and pcb? Or are they throttled by the graphic card anyway? ---<)kaimartin(>---
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