Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!enother.net!enother.net!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.bresnan.com!news.bresnan.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2015 13:04:32 -0500 Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2015 12:04:27 -0600 From: GreyCloud User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110518 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,comp.sys.mac.system,alt.hacker,alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store References: <86549329f10d815d2e5922dee68cf94a@anemone.mooo.com> <210920151816339085%nospam@nospam.invalid> <210920151849448520%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020151828504734%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020151852561506%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020151911207774%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020152005513999%nospam@nospam.invalid> <061020151150087031%nospam@nospam.invalid> In-Reply-To: <061020151150087031%nospam@nospam.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 40 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 184.167.49.124 X-Trace: sv3-gSwx5qXc9cfqTBk8+YTA205oy9PvwSj/TszGPoFu3hPrBsQu9MNOLZB8frOTBQhKQkEiWo60jsblKtp!1GHAIabRz9VnR9ZquK4WUxu8iS0hIOU5ooN7C6WSr3JGIYRxRMxgW1OUUdt5xfbF9BltWZufGFja!oKo0hMZj902bcA== X-Complaints-To: abuse@bresnan.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@bresnan.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3569 X-Received-Bytes: 3681 X-Received-Body-CRC: 4046691154 Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.freeware:245424 comp.sys.mac.system:82271 alt.hacker:8979 alt.privacy.anon-server:46145 comp.os.linux.advocacy:325345 On 10/06/15 09:50, nospam wrote: > In article, Alan Baker > wrote: > >>>> adobe has supported multiple cores since the mid-90s and apple's final >>>> cut uses both gpus, as does other software. >>> >>> Name em. >> >> >> >> Please note: that link is from 2010. > > it doesn't matter when it's from. he doesn't understand when multicore > helps and when it doesn't. he's also completely ignoring that some apps > offload to the gpu. > > finder, which reads and writes files, can only read or write one file > at any given moment. the hd/ssd is the bottleneck, not the processor. > > photoshop, on the other hand, uses as many cores as needed depending on > the task. when it makes things faster, multiple cores are used. when it > would make things slower, they aren't. the key is what gives the > fastest results to the user. > > that page even mentions that open/save in photoshop doesn't benefit > from multicore. duh. it *can't*. It's too bad that the hard drive makers are still back in the 70s with their designs. The old IBM hard drives that the military use to use had one spindle but indepentdently moving heads to speed up the operation with independent read/write channels. I can easily see a speed improvement here if the current hard drives for PCs had the same design. -- When told the reason for daylight savings time the Old Indian said, "Only the government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket."