[Tyler McAdams]

I see that the code has been rewritten to take advantage of the G5... I have an older dual cpu G4... will it still use both cpu's?

[larkost]

Emulation code is hard to write (very complex) and multithreading is very hard (especially on complex linear tasks... like emulation). So the chances that VPC is multithreaded in any real way is going to be small. This means that it will not directly benefit from multiprocessors. It will still get the usual benefits of having a second processor in the system (other programs can be shifted to the other processor).

[Tyler McAdams]

Originally posted by larkost:
Emulation code is hard to write (very complex) and multithreading is very hard (especially on complex linear tasks... like emulation). So the chances that VPC is multithreaded in any real way is going to be small. This means that it will not directly benefit from multiprocessors. It will still get the usual benefits of having a second processor in the system (other programs can be shifted to the other processor).

Indeed, but VPC5 thourgh 6 are smp aware. The code has been rewritten but I don't know what "features" have been kept. VMware just created an smp module for their products... fyi.