Re: [NF] Dual-core vs Quad-core...need common sense opinions

Author: Mike Copeland

Posted: 2011-09-22 at 16:40:50

Right...VFP is only a piece of the puzzle for my personal workstation.

I'm also trying to learn Python and I do a fair amount of PHP (Not PCP!)

and web development.

I know VFP is single-thread...oh boy, do I ever. I get a lot of

complaints about "I had to shut down your app because it said "Not

Responding"..."

Oye, give it a chance...Windows 7 is awfully quick to condemn an

application for not responding.

Anyway, I know tomorrow is another day, demands for memory, storage, and

CPU face-time are constantly increasing, and my own patience for waiting

while an app paints the screen with purty graphics (ooooooooh! did you

see the puppy?!) ....but somewhere there is a sweet spot of $$$ vs.

Horsepower and when I'm spending MY money, I'm careful to search for

that sweetest of sweet spot.

Thanks for the thought-cycles...anyone else have experience with Quad vs

Dual cores on the desktop for general computing?

Mike

-------- Original Message --------

Subject: Re: [NF] Dual-core vs Quad-core...need common sense opinions

From: MB Software Solutions, LLC

<mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com>

To: profoxtech@leafe.com

Date: 9/22/2011 3:21 PM

On 9/22/2011 3:49 PM, Allen wrote:

> no. VFP cant use more than one core. Only advantage is other things can

> Al

I'm thinking he's looking at the general picture for his computing

needs, not that he expected VFP to take advantage of that. ??

I did see on VFPx that there's a project called Parallel Fox to help

Foxpro applications take advantage of multiple processors, iirc.

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