Re: SMP configuration

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 17 May 2010, Michael Menegakis wrote:

> Importance of the method might be increasing due to the commodity of
> multiprocessing CPUs. Chip manufacturers appear to find it harder to
> invent smaller transistors in the same pace so we may see even
> eight-cores becoming popular in the near future.

Everything you say is true, but it is highly unlikely that CPU core 
performance has much to do with Windows "fork" emulation performance. 
Executing tests in parallel would help some but quite likely not 
nearly as much as hoped for.

A more proper solution is to eliminate the forking almost entirely 
with a better shell design.  This would improve Unix execution 
performance too.

Bob
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