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Dual Processors?
Is anyone running TS4 on a Dual Pentium II system , and compared the performance
to a similar speed Single Pentium II. It's time for a new system, and I'm
considering the dual upgrade. I've heard that the advantage of the dual
motherboard is in the ability to divide separate CPU intensive threads (like data
retrieval and opening workspaces) across the two chips. Would this thread
splitting provide the ability to fix the data reception problem during loading and
possibly accommodate CPU intensive scans and data retrieval simultaneously? Could
this possibly give me the ability to run chartscanner while receiving real-time
quotes during trading hours? Possibly the true speed gain with a dual board will
be seen in TS5 if they did indeed structure their threading properly. If no one
knows, are there any good techs at Omega that could answer a question like this?
Feelin' the need for speed....
Robbie Clark - new in town
Earl Adamy wrote:
> Windows in it's various incarnations starting with 3.0 incorporated a "Yield"
> event which allowed a programmer to yield a long running task to the operating
> system so that the Os could allow other tasks to run. It did not take a rocket
> scientist to build apps which did not hog the CPU (as TS/SC does when loading)
> nor did it take a rocket scientist to simulate threading which allowed related
> tasks to proceed. Later versions of Windows have facilitated the building of
> truly threaded apps. Omega programs have been generally ill-behaved and in the
> social world would be considered selfish. Perhaps they will properly thread
> operations in TS5. In any event, more memory should reduce load time,
> alternatively a faster processor.
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> Earl
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