Jim Dean![]() Sage ![]() ![]() Posts: 3022 Joined: 9/21/2006 Location: L'ville, GA ![]() | OT and VT will run across multiple cores. I said that previously. I tested it extensively several years ago. The OS makes that happen. The only way for anyone to know the relative merits of one configuration over another is to actually test them. I'm sure you understand that is not Nirvana's job. There are too many possibilities. Here is what I did: set up a line of credit with Dell, and order three machines from them with carefully selected alternative config's. Dell offers a 30-day no-questions return policy without restocking fee - they usually will even pay the return shipping and credit you for the orig shipping, if you ask nicely. This allows you to do sidebyside trials of several options. You could keep one and return two machines (as I did), or return all three and order a different one. Re VT7 - I know that VT5 was a pure-dot-Net rebuild - the first such - and it made a huge difference. VT7 most likely incorporated fine-tuning of the engine, now that it was no longer "spaghetti code". Since VT is much much younger than OT, the spaghetti was less intertwined and easier to rewrite. The dotNet OT rewrite is underway and is IMHO a hugely important task to complete asap. However OT is "angelhair" pasta - much more complex (other than graphics) than VT - and "sticky" pasta to boot, due to its age. A rewrite is not a trivial task. Hopefully this info will clarify some of the other "non-income-generating" priorities that Nirvana would likely put much higher than trying to optimize for specific processors. Again, JMHO, fwiw. |