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applications designed to take advantage of multi-core
question:
i have a copy of sony vegas movie studio 6, which was released late 2005. when i bought it, i believe intel was just taking the wraps off their first quad-core desktop cpu (correct me if i'm wrong). but at the time of this program's release, single core systems were still plentiful, although dual core systems were making in-roads too.
the point i'm getting to is this: i have vegas installed in windows 7 (don't need to upgrade vegas as i'm still using a standard def camcorder) and when i render a movie, i notice that all of my cores get a workout--sometimes 100% on all cores. i'm not complaining about the usage, i'm just surprised that a program that was written before quad core cpus were plentiful can acutally make use of all of the cores. how is that so? in comparison, i have programs that were written 2008, 2009 that only (mainly) use one core out of the four--so how does a program from 2005/06 make use of all cores?
curious...