Author: Mike Copeland
Posted: 2011-09-22 15:40:23 Link
I'm facing the need to upgrade my personal development workstation, and
am wondering if there is any advantage to a quad-core processor over a
dual-core for single-user, workstation, development in VFP9, type of
work? Stuff like email, web browsing, VFP application development,
listening to Pandora, etc.
I've built and installed a few quad-core data servers running Linux, and
it is clearly obvious why those applications benefit, but I'm not sure
that the additional $ cost would be a good investment when using a
quad-core processor as a workstation.
Up until recently, the price difference between dual and quad cores made
the decision easy...no. Now the difference is not as bad for the
CPU...even though the i3 and i5 usually need a more expensive RAM and
Mboard to support them.
Then there's the multi-thread benefits...or not.
Opinions? Experiences?
Thanks!
Mike Copeland
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Author: Allen
Posted: 2011-09-22 15:49:33 Link
no. VFP cant use more than one core. Only advantage is other things can
Al
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I'm facing the need to upgrade my personal development workstation, and
am wondering if there is any advantage to a quad-core processor over a
dual-core for single-user, workstation, development in VFP9, type of
work? Stuff like email, web browsing, VFP application development,
listening to Pandora, etc.
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Author: Pete Theisen
Posted: 2011-09-22 15:58:25 Link
Mike Copeland wrote:
> I'm facing the need to upgrade my personal development workstation, and
> am wondering if there is any advantage to a quad-core processor over a
> dual-core for single-user, workstation, development in VFP9, type of
> work? Stuff like email, web browsing, VFP application development,
> listening to Pandora, etc.
>
> I've built and installed a few quad-core data servers running Linux, and
> it is clearly obvious why those applications benefit, but I'm not sure
> that the additional $ cost would be a good investment when using a
> quad-core processor as a workstation.
>
> Up until recently, the price difference between dual and quad cores made
> the decision easy...no. Now the difference is not as bad for the
> CPU...even though the i3 and i5 usually need a more expensive RAM and
> Mboard to support them.
>
> Then there's the multi-thread benefits...or not.
>
> Opinions? Experiences?
Hi Mike,
If you will keep this machine for personal use after you retire get all
the horsepower you can possibly afford. The ordinary applications keep
bulking up to soak up the power. Developers always write for the hottest
gaming hardware out there, because they can. Economy, especially economy
with someone else's money, never occurs to them.
In five years your old box will choke on the anti virus application
alone. And the spam blocker will need a CPU the size of a refrigerator.
--
Regards,
Pete
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Author: MB Software Solutions, LLC
Posted: 2011-09-22 16:21:49 Link
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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Author: Mike Copeland
Posted: 2011-09-22 16:40:50 Link
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
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Subject: Re: [NF] Dual-core vs Quad-core...need common sense opinions
From: MB Software Solutions, LLC
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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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Author: Allen
Posted: 2011-09-22 18:59:17 Link
I saw that and it looks ok but you would have to tell a particular method to
use a core. Might need to sort out a class to do that. Don't know if there
is a way to find out how busy a core is and use another one.
Al
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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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