[rescue] OS X and dual CPU machines?

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Michael Schiller <schiller at agrijag.com> wrote:
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> Hi All.
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> I've been wondering, would OS X run better on a dual G4 500mhz
> machine with 1mb cache per CPU, than on an 800mhz iMac with a
> single G4 CPU with only 256k cache?

Depends. ;^)

Emotion/logic tells me that having a Unix-based OS running on dual CPUs
with a nice sixe cache is better than single-threading through a faster
single CPU with a fraction of the cache.

But, a single-user game (for instance) would probably work better on
the single-CPU box.

Can your mix of applications (multi-threaded application or multiple,
single-threaded applications at the same time) benefit from "SNMP
BABY!"


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Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

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