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Would Multi-core technology be taken advantage of by dosbox?

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First post, by lucky7456969

Posted on 2012-06-26, 07:07

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Let's say dosbox belongs to one task, when one core takes on this task and works on the for loop of the application. Then the given time-slice expires,
the thread relinquished possession, then another core takes control.
So the only speed-up for any application including dosbox is the speed(frequency)
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Reply 1 of 5, by Jorpho

Posted on 2012-06-26, 17:32

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It sounds like you answered your own question.

Reply 2 of 5, by mr_bigmouth_502

Posted on 2012-06-27, 02:47

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Just saying, but I think it would be cool if Dosbox were able to split various functions of its emulation into different threads, as in one thread for the CPU emulation, one for video emulation, one for sound, and so on.

Reply 3 of 5, by Jorpho

Posted on 2012-06-27, 04:20

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This was covered before to some extent in DOSBOX and dual cores? .

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Reply 4 of 5, by mr_bigmouth_502

Posted on 2012-06-27, 04:22

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I still think it would be really cool though, because I remember reading somewhere that one of the most CPU-intensive parts of DosBox's emulation routines is its VGA emulation.

Reply 5 of 5, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2012-06-27, 07:14

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Although it's not impossible I think it isn't high priority either.

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