Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: building performance Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:58:43 -0800 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: Z2l1DcCELS0rATq8NqV4Sw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:11587 On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:41:36 +0100, Wanja Gayk wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : > >> 2. Is there anything reasonable simple to take advantage of the extra >> cores? > >What do you mean? A list of applications? >Video editing software and video transcoding software loves multicore >systems in general. I don't need to point out Application Servers and >stuff, I think. Some games make use of it, but I don't think that's what >you had in mind. I was asking in the context of ANT builds. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com One of the most useful comments you can put in a program is "If you change this, remember to change ?XXX? too".