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Re: gEDA-user: going multi core



On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 07:36 +0000, Peter TB Brett wrote:
> ----- Original message -----
> > just one such core. Can I expect a spectacular speed-up of gschem 
> > and pcb? Or are they throttled by the graphic card anyway?
> 
> gschem is a single-threaded application. It runs on one core, no matter how many you have.  So no, don't expect a big speed up.

Your X11 server will have a whole other core to run in if things get
taxing.

In any case, we are doing something wrong if gschem is consuming 100%
CPU on one core, and X11 is doing similar!


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