Possible Multi thread support?

[YoshiDragon]

I'm using a computer with 2 processors. Would it be possible in the future that Dolphin would have multi thread support so both processors could be used at once so I could get a higher FPS? Or is there some tweak already to make programs in general use both processors at once? Thanks in advance everyone.

[IceWarm]

Asking for new features is against the rules.

[YoshiDragon]

To Quote Falcon4Ever's rules thread:
Welcome to the Dolphin support forum, before posting you should read the rules we are using here.

DO NOT

Ask for GC-iso's (aka gcm's)
Tell people where to get GC-iso's (or tell them to contact you about it)
Don't PM or e-mail us for GC-iso's
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Don't write in capitals
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Ask to be a betatester
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Don't ask when a new version will be released
Don't ask for updates , they will update when they want/need to

Nowhere in that do I see it say asking if a feature will ever be possible is against the rules, do you? Especially since half of the post was referring to computers in general...

[IceWarm]

Take a look at this thread(even though it is not about Dolphin):

http://emutalk.net/showthread.php?t=23758

Is says there is a "don't request features" rule in effect. It falls undet the catagory of askinf for updates.

[SoberAnalyst]

i started topics on "cool dolphin ideas" ... it was not against the rules. i don't think you should request that they do something but you could politely state something like ... if Dolphin ran on multi-threads then hyperthreading and/or multi-cpu would benefit. perhaps sound support will run in another thread ... who knows? ... if so, it wouldn't give you anymore FPS.

[bohdy]

Ridiculous rules... there is nothing wrong with harmless suggestions. F|res and Ector are perfectly free to ignore them. Nothing is being demanded here.

I also think that more emphasis on multi-threading would be a very good idea in Dolphin, as its pretty clear to me that CPU's are gong to be moving towards mult-core in the near future rather than "just more mhz". I'm not however sure how much of the task of gamecube emulation can be parallerised, though.

Worth looking into I think.

[jareg]

Ridiculous rules... there is nothing wrong with harmless suggestions. F|res and Ector are perfectly free to ignore them. Nothing is being demanded here.

I also think that more emphasis on multi-threading would be a very good idea in Dolphin, as its pretty clear to me that CPU's are gong to be moving towards mult-core in the near future rather than "just more mhz". I'm not however sure how much of the task of gamecube emulation can be parallerised, though.

Worth looking into I think.

Mm ever heard of 64bit Cpus

[Clements]

Since single-core processors are currently far too slow for Dolphin, and dual-core CPUs coming in just a few years with multithreading becoming the norm and not just guys with multi-processor systems, it just seems that Dolphin supporting it would have to be ineviatable if full frames is the goal of the project.

[RabinSherif]

just a quick question, would you even see much of a preformance boost even if dolphin was writen to support multiple processors/threads becuase of the way windows handles multiple processors? I could be totaly wrong about this, but I thought windows doesnt really do any sort of parallel processing, where I would think something like this would greatly benifit, but instead distribute cetain processes to certain processors/threads?

Again I could be totaly wrong on this so dont hold me to it.

[euphoria]

w9x OS's don't support multiple processors. NT's and W2k (prolly XP, dunno) supports them.