well as they said over and over again before there will never-ever be quad core support or perhaps even tricore support as the reason is already stated in one of the above post unless by some miracle perhaps somebody who has more time coding on his pc than having a life probably but nahhhhhhhhhh!!!! thats wat I think
Quad core is the best processor. I like the quad core instead of core 2 duo processor. It is faster and better then the other all processors. I had not used but My friends had given a good reviews.
You can't have an opinion on something you've never even TRIED let alone don't have... -digs around for his analogy-
Here we go... I actually wrote this on the PCSX2 forums, but the same pretty much applies to Dolphin...
Koji on PCSX2 forums Wrote:To help explain a bit... A single core processor is like a single car with room for one person.. A hyperthreaded core (like a pentium 4) is like a car with 2 people. Multiple core processors are like many cars that all share the same gas tank (cache).
Now let's say that all trips in the car start at point A. If a car takes someone someplace, the next person that uses the car must start again at point A.
Let's say point B is 50 miles away, point C is 100 miles from A, but only 75 miles from B...
Single core car is going 50 miles per hour. It first goes from point A to B, which is 1 hour. Then a new person gets in a single car and goes to point C from A, which is 2 hours. Total trip for both is 3 hours.
Hyperthreaded is also 50 MPH. From A to B is still 1 hour and the first person gets out. The second person takes over the car and goes from B to C which is 1.5hours for 2.5hours total (less time than just the single core)
Dual core is 2 seperate cars going 50MPH. Car 1 arrives in 1 hour, while it takes car 2 2 hours... But since both cars are going at the same time, it only takes 2 hours total instead.
Quad core is 4 cars going 25mph (half speed of dual for a very rough and easy estimate for my example). Car 1 arrives in 2 hours, while car 2 takes 4 hours. Total time, 4 hours with 2 of the cars sitting unused (this is what normally happens in PCSX2 or dolphin in quad core examples)
That's why you can't simply multiply CPU speed x amount of cores to get a net speed. It all depends on how many destinations you want to get to... If you have a lot of short distances to get to, 4 cars will be more efficient... But if you only have a couple long distances to go to, fewer cores will do fine and are generally faster.
^_^;; that's kind of a simplified version... I could go much more into detail... Like the fact that 4 cars sharing the same gas tank could quickly run out of gas (cache) if they are trying to all go long distances or if it's mishandled (the car going the shortest distance getting the most amount of gas)
I might try and refine this analogy and make it a quick copy pasta every time someone wonders why dual cores are faster at certain tasks when max combined ghz favors quads.
Obviously a quad of similar clock to dual, the final example would be the same as dual core, just still with 2 cars not doing much.