[rescue] Dual Processors and applications

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 03:33:42PM -0400, Big Endian wrote:
> >On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:39:49PM -0400, Big Endian wrote:
> >
> >> 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.

Didn't think of that.  I was thinking more along the lines of geometry 
acceleration (which is what the Oxygen ?02 cards used SMP for).

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Joshua D. Boyd