On Monday 08 January 2007 14:16, "Nico Schümann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions': > Then I tried to bunzip a large file and found out that the machine was > about 40 % in idle which is clear because bzip2 is only one process. > So is there any way to build those utilities like bzip2 or gzip in a > thread-using way?
In general, no. If there was a magic way to turn non-parallel activities into parallel activities it would be done by the kernel and/or gcc automagically AND we would have seen desktops be multi-core years ago. > It's not that nice to see the machine in idle at > all^^ Multi-task. I'm doing very little right now and I have 207 processes running. The great thing about my 4 cores is I be doing all kinds of crazy stuff in the background and my games/full-screen video never miss a beat. -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh
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