[sdiy] SPICE and Processors

[Antti Huovilainen]

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Jerry Gray-Eskue wrote:

> The cheapest and easiest way to speed things up is to kill off as many tasks
> as possible, that is to say run Only spice, No web browser, word processor,
> etc. You may be surprised how fast spice will run when it is the only thing
> running.

Unless you have something severely wrong (flash videos open in browser 
etc), the difference is minimal. Perhaps 5% on average. The difference 
between Pentium-M and Core 2 Duo is due to Core 2 having a bit more 
efficient FPU, not due to multiple cores.

Antti

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