Dual Core Process Spreading

aSc1@3

aSc1@3

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Hi, i'm a big i.e. multi-tasker, and love the idea of tabs instead of having to open a new window. To spread this multitasking onto both cores, do they have to be in multiple windows, or will the processes of 1 program be spread to the all the cores?
 
A program only utilises multiple cores if it's programmed to do so. Every instance of the program (which usually equals to 1 window) is a separate thread and can operate in different cores. However, having ten tabs open in firefox while listening to music or somethingl like that is NOT multitasking. Having webpages open in different pages/windows makes no difference (if that's what you were thinking about) in terms of performance.
 
As ^ said, FireFox and IE alone aren't multithreaded, so if you have 20 different IE or FF windows open, then it won't be utilizing more then one core. You can check this by going into the task manager, if it stays under 50% with a dual-core, then it's just using one of the cores.

Now if you had FF and IE open, as well as other browsers and other apps, then that would be taking advantage of having a multi-core processor.
 
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