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twgonzalez
Is processing optimized for multi-core?
Sep 14th, 2008, 8:11pm  
Let me start by saying I am not a Java programmer, so please execuse the question if this is obvious.

I am running on a Mac Pro 8-Core with 14GB of memory and a Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT.  I was trying to figure out how outside of increasing the memory allocated to Java that I could take advantage of my hardware for rendering animations faster in Processing.  My understanding is that Java does support symmetric processing via its threading model.   Has processing been optimized to take advantage of this, or since processing is pinned to Java 1.4, is that not possible?    Would there even be performance gains if Processing could leverage all eight-cores?  I assume with all the floating point operations that must be occurring this would boost performance.

Any feedback/info very much appreciated.
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JohnG
Re: Is processing optimized for multi-core?
Reply #1 - Sep 14th, 2008, 9:12pm  
The processing core is single threaded I believe, but you can create your own threads, which should span across cores correctly.
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