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I don't know about anyone elses feelings on the matter.. but I want an operating system that is not "tweaked" for anything.. I want it designed for function, not coaxed or "tweaked" into performing as it should.
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UberGerbil |
This isn't really news, btw. MS has been talking about this for a couple of years now,
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9722524-7.html Microsoft actually has a bunch of research going on to address multcore and clustered processing. eg MSManic: http://research.microsoft.com/projects/msmanic/ Dryad: http://research.microsoft.com/research/sv/dryad/ As well as various other projects, some closer to fruition than others, addressing other layers above the kernel, such as the Task Parallel Library for existing .NET languages and the Parallel FX library that will be built into the next generation of the runtime and those languages. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163340.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163329.aspx |
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I think they're going to have to be a bit more specific and convincing than that, considering it's still pretty much Vista. I don't know anything about this "Robotics Development Kit," but I bet it doesn't help me too much.
What else have they got in store? Maybe Paint is finally multi-threaded! Now it will process graphic effects multiple times as fast. Just imagine how useful the spray can will become! |
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ew |
"Win32 was never designed for highly concurrent, asynchronous processing,"
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#1, Too easy for what?
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mackintire |
Paint.net is multi-threaded and in fact is currently runs poorly on single core processors, that problem is being fixed with the next release this month.
Microsoft Paint is not multi-threaded. Threading the scheduler, the network stack and the I/O handler is a big deal. No one is claiming that its going to work as well on a single core machine. However I have seen instances where windows networking stack pukes and dies waiting for the kernel to unload. So for the future, yes this will be a improvement. The three pieces I am waiting for are: Storage devices that have 0ms access and over 1GB of transfer per second. A video card that can run Crysis at 1900x1200 with everything on and never drop below 60FPS A scalable 64bit operating system that can use all the resources as one large virtual resource at a relatively high level of efficiency. |
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The changes could help Windows 7 better cope with systems that have eight or more CPU cores.
Wait so am I understanding this correctly? Does this mean that Windows 7 will have multiprocessor enhancements and they are improving the multithreading for a higher number of cores, or does it mean that you need at least 8 cores to take advantage of their parallelism? |
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Adamantine |
Hopefully he means being better at executing multiple threads simultaneously (aka SMT), which isn't the same as being multi-threading aware .
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#13, Yes, right here. :-)
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Krogoth |
More marketing speak.
Any modern OS is multi-threaded and just handles the scheduling between the processes. However, it sounds more like "7" is a big patch for Vista a.k.a Windows 98 2.0. XD |
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StashTheVampede |
"Windows 7" is consumer focused, right? "windows 7" is built off of Vista's kernel, right? This is a big change, period. It's not so simple to get everything to scale across X cores (Sun and IBM have done it), let alone a whole OS.
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adisor19 |
Grand Central anyone ?!
You know, when the "Redmond, start your photocopiers!" banners will be up at the next Apple WWDC, i won't point at it and make fun of them, on the contrary, it will be quite justified. Jeez, i wonder sometimes.. Up Next : "Windows 7 will introduce DirectX WORK ! Putitng the power of your GPU to good use !" Adi |
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indeego |
What would be sweet would be an OS that can migrate both applications and settings from a previous OS without using virtualization, and guarantee it works on the new OS. If it doesn't work, make it work either through an application upgrade or a workaround applied automatically.
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I always repartion thei pieces when redoing my OS.
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Once again MS manages to re-announce the things that everyone else is already working on. Again it's not as big or as featureful on Windows. Again it will be defended by MS fans as being 'revolutionary'. AGAIN it will not deliver what was promised and NO ONE will call MS out over it.