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Still primitive - OS has a long way to go
croberts 16th Sep 2009

I use the NT CPU affinity tool to assign programs to cores to boost performance of multimedia processes, but there is a long way to go.

8 cores is great, but 8 dynamically re-taskable cores would be a real step forward.

Imagine that the OS needs more GPU capacity to run a game and assigns 3 of the 8 cores to work in parallel to increase graphics capability.

In another example, you want to burn a DVD. The OS assigns a core to that task to isolate it from other tasks and prevent the burn operation from failing. In conjunction, a HAL gives that core priority access to the required hardware I/O subsystems.

All automatically. Just point, click, and the OS automatically configures things as needed.

This light years ahead of any consumer operating system. It seems like we have treads running willy nilly on whatever core, without any overriding strategy.

And while there is process priority and thread priority, there is not good core management.
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