On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 04:58:05PM +0000, Jim Nagel wrote: > Some of the new Arm hardware running RiscOS (e.g. the ArmX6 and > Titanium) has a multi-core processor. So far, of course, RiscOS lacks > the ability to make use of the extra potential. > > Question occurs to me: what's the situation with the other platforms > on which Netsurf runs -- Amiga, Atari, etc? Does multi-core ability > exist in hardware there? > > Do the Netsurf developers have ideas for how Netsurf could take > advantage of the extra processing power when the OSes allow it?
NetSurf is single-threaded, by design. It won't take direct advantange of multiple cores. It'll still be faster on those systems which support multiple CPUs, because the OS can run on one while NetSurf runs on another. B.
