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[dacaw]

Multi processes under Windows

I keep seeing all these references to multi-threading being necessary to get the most out of dual core but surely this misses the point of the way Windows works.

Let's take a browser for example. Even when its in the foreground it has to call services to actually get the data stream. Surely, in a dual processor system, those services can run on the 2nd core. When I look at my system just after startup there are > 20 processes running. One of the heaviest uses is antivirus and a lot of systems have that.

So, IMHO, except for some unique situations like games I see that a multicore makes lots of sense. No?