🚀 go-pugleaf

Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2018, ma...@mail.com wrote:
> 
>> On 2018-07-30, Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>>> On Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 3:03:35 PM UTC-6, JimP wrote:
>>>> We
>>>> decided that no home computyer would ever have a CPU that ran at 1 GHz
>>>> or better, nor have a gigabyte of ram.
>>> 
>>>> We were wrong.
>>> 
>>> Ah, well.
>>> 
>>> I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
>>> - Attributed to Thomas J. Watson (Sr.), but likely spurious
>>> 
>>> There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
>>> - Kenneth H. Olsen, founder of the Digital Equipment Corporation
>>> 
>>> 640K of RAM should be enough for anybody
>>> - Attributed to William H. Gates III, but he has denied it
>>> 
>>> I think there are others like it, in this case two out of the three
>>> quotes I could easily find are apparently spurious
>>> 
>>> John Savard
>> 
>> For a few years, I upgraded motherboards ("He are you _still_ using that
>> old thing?"), but over the last 5 or so years, I cannot see any reason to
>> perhaps faster USSB ports?
>> 
> Yes, there was still a lot of change for a "long time".  But then it 
> passed apoint where you had enough of a computer to do many things fine, 
> and then later it hit a point where you could still improve your computer, 
> but it was a small incremental change for the price.  Kind of like "hifi" 
> in the old days, there'd be lots of articles telling you what specs you 
> needed, and then those specs became common place so the articles mostly 
> disappeared.  The "average" stereo was "good enough" but you could also 
> pay endlessly for some very small improvements.
> 
> Two years ago I got a refurbished quad core running at 3.4GHz, from what I 
> can tell it was new in 2011.  I wanted to try a multi-core system, but 
> this one idles most of the time, I've not yet thrown anything at it where 
> the speed increses or I see a lot of action on the multiple cores.  So I 
> could have stayed with the refurbished computer I got in 2012, which was 
> 3GHz and had a single core but threaded CPU.

I have a dual-core system. At max load I run about a core and a half. I
suspect that if gimp was better threaded I could easily max out two or
more.  I seldom run more than one "foregound" application at a time.
> 

-- 
Pete