>From Adobe's website:
"All Photoshop features are faster on a multiprocessor system, although some
can take greater advantage of the multiprocessor system's capabilities."
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 9:21 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: Processor advice for handling OM images
> I'd be pretty cautious about a multi-processor solution. In order for
> it to work for you, you must be running more than one process (not the
> case here) or the application software must be written to split the time
> consuming work into multiple threads that can be simultaneously handled
> by more than one processor.
>
> While image processing is probably more amenable to splitting up the
> work than some other computationally intensive tasks, the additional
> programming work is not trivial and I would be skeptical that even PS
> has expended the extra effort to implement it.
>
> If PS does not support divvying up the heavy tasks then you would be a
> very unhappy customer when you discovered that, not only was the second
> processor not helping out, but was actually dragging the first processor
> down a bit by the necessity of synchronizing inter-processor
communication.
>
> Just go with the fasted uni-processor you can find with the greatest
> amount of physical memory you can stuff into it. Fast hard drives are
> also good but nothing improves the performance of virtual memory faster
> than more physical memory.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Gary Edwards wrote:
>
> > The best answer is probably a twin processor Mac G5
>
>
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