Quote Originally Posted by gosh View Post
And that takes time and increases the burden on the FSB which is the main bottleneck on C2Q. The gain to create that type of threaded software isn't there, performance for smaller tasks will be negative compared to one single thread. Creating threads on C2Q, then you need to reallocate memory or design the software like separate applications with a minimum of shared resources between threads.
If you have one application and want to split up some task that takes time in the application it isn't worth the effort compared to Phenom or i7 that handles this type of work very well.
And such is the luxury/problem with having >%80 marketshare. You can be sure software writers will tailor make their programs to benefit your architecture. Benchmark programs included.