Krashan wrote:
Krashan described a clean method to launch tasks in other cores.

In fact it is Assymetric Multi Processing. While not as elegant as SMP it has an advantage it can be introduced gradually with no compatibility breakage. MorphOS will support PowerMacs soon. Some of them are dualcore, which opens a field for experimenting.

In real life one do not need mail program, instant messenger and IRC client to run on multiple cores. One expects it however from movie encoder, 3D raytracer and dnetc client . Then disadvantage of ASMP, that only specifically prepared programs may run multicore, is not so painfull.

[ Edited by Krashan on 2010/1/6 17:22 ]