Toksyuryel (toksyuryel)'s status on Thursday, 13-Sep-12 20:48:14 UTC
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@pony It's not a case of the software being "compatible". The software isn't "incompatible" with the processor, it just isn't programmed to take advantage of the additional cores. Which in many cases is just fine, not every task *can* be split into multiple threads. Rewriting existing software to use multiple threads also takes a long time and is very error-prone. But this isn't really a problem if you treat the main benefit as enabling better multitasking, because then it doesn't matter if a one piece of software uses just one thread as that just leaves room for other pieces of software to use the other cores.
