<strong>With my dualie I can work in Photoshop while simultaneously burning a CD and compressing a short video. While this might be possible on the 933, the performance hit on the MP isn't nearly as much, hence I'm done my tasks sooner. Sooner = faster, doesn't it?</strong><hr></blockquote>
possible on a 933???
i do that on my g3 450, and believe me, the performance hit is much <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
[quote] If I run two virtual machines at once, shouldn't VPC be smart enough to start two "main" threads? And that brings up another point...what about emulation of dual processor machines?.. <hr></blockquote>
Up until mid-late last year, I was a developer at Connectix.
We wanted to do something like what you state, but doing this would mean that the cross-compiler/emulation code would have to be thread safe. Undertaking such a task (not only making it thread safe, but allowing it to run on a different thread than the UI) was far more work than we had time for. But the possibility was seriously investigated.
Given that most people only run one virtual machine at a time, and that Connectix has a very small Mac team, it was felt that efforts were best spent elsewhere.
Up until mid-late last year, I was a developer at Connectix.
We wanted to do something like what you state, but doing this would mean that the cross-compiler/emulation code would have to be thread safe. Undertaking such a task (not only making it thread safe, but allowing it to run on a different thread than the UI) was far more work than we had time for. But the possibility was seriously investigated.
Given that most people only run one virtual machine at a time, and that Connectix has a very small Mac team, it was felt that efforts were best spent elsewhere.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Did you guys/gals ever think about putting the instruction translater in its own thread? Just curious.
[quote]Did you guys/gals ever think about putting the instruction translater in its own thread? Just curious.<hr></blockquote>
The cross-compiler? Actually yes, the possibility was debated. It was determined to be too high risk for Virtual PC 5 given the small amount of resources we had. By small amount of resources, I mean few Engineers and few available QA people.
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<strong>With my dualie I can work in Photoshop while simultaneously burning a CD and compressing a short video. While this might be possible on the 933, the performance hit on the MP isn't nearly as much, hence I'm done my tasks sooner. Sooner = faster, doesn't it?</strong><hr></blockquote>
possible on a 933???
i do that on my g3 450, and believe me, the performance hit is much <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
Up until mid-late last year, I was a developer at Connectix.
We wanted to do something like what you state, but doing this would mean that the cross-compiler/emulation code would have to be thread safe. Undertaking such a task (not only making it thread safe, but allowing it to run on a different thread than the UI) was far more work than we had time for. But the possibility was seriously investigated.
Given that most people only run one virtual machine at a time, and that Connectix has a very small Mac team, it was felt that efforts were best spent elsewhere.
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Up until mid-late last year, I was a developer at Connectix.
We wanted to do something like what you state, but doing this would mean that the cross-compiler/emulation code would have to be thread safe. Undertaking such a task (not only making it thread safe, but allowing it to run on a different thread than the UI) was far more work than we had time for. But the possibility was seriously investigated.
Given that most people only run one virtual machine at a time, and that Connectix has a very small Mac team, it was felt that efforts were best spent elsewhere.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Did you guys/gals ever think about putting the instruction translater in its own thread? Just curious.
The cross-compiler? Actually yes, the possibility was debated. It was determined to be too high risk for Virtual PC 5 given the small amount of resources we had. By small amount of resources, I mean few Engineers and few available QA people.