[rescue] Dual Processors and applications

[Big Endian]

>On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:39:49PM -0400, Big Endian wrote:
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>>  Not to mention if its an OpenGL app and the Ogl is multithreaded.
>
>Aside from high-end NT and Win2k cards, where is OpenGL multithreaded?  I
>don't think that XFree threads GL.  I doubt that SGI does (why thread on
>the CPUs if the graphics hardware should be doing everything?).  Does
>Sun?  HP?

I'm sure SGI threads their opengl with the memory management aspect 
of things.  The idea of texture swapping should be done at the os 
level in its own driver thread.

daniel
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