[fpc-devel] Russian locale information not compatible withFPClocale variables

[Tomas Hajny]

On 31 Jul 08, at 10:49, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:11 AM, "Vinzent HĂśfler"
> <JeLlyFish.software at gmx.net> wrote:
> > a desktop system with hundreds of processors in the next few years or so. Practical
> > benchmarks these days have shown, that a Quad-Core gains almost nothing
> > compared to a cheaper Dual-Core in most practical circumstances.
> 
> That's probably due to the currently available software all being
> single threaded.  I remember back in the day when I used OS/2.  Even
> though it ran on a single core system, it felt a lot more responsive
> that todays OS's, because most apps and the OS + WPS used multiple
> threads extensively. Quicker visual feedback played wonders to the
> illusion that it was fast. Now with todays multi-core systems it will
> not simply be an illusion.

Well, one of the points with OS/2 is that the OS handles thread (and 
process) switching rather efficiently (without burning too many 
resources just on doing this); something not necessarily true for 
other operating systems including their most recent versions.

Tomas