Quote Originally Posted by fiveprime View Post
I thought the majority of current programs still use single threads.
Actually -- this is not quite true.... it is harder to find bench software that is 'common' that is not multithreaded.

Compression/decompression - winrar multithreaded.
Audio encoding - ripping .. iTunes, multithreaded ... LameMP3 multithreaded.
Video encoding - almost all multithreaded, sony vegas multithreaded, Pinnacle Studio multithreaded
Video editing - paint.net (open) multithreaded, any adobe software multithreaded
Games: Any recently released game, UT3 multithreaded, Crysis multithreaded, Lost Planet multithreaded, World in Conflect multithreaded.

Though not all SW has become multithreaded... superPi is still single threaded