[quake3] quake3 MacOS hackery, continued...

[David Chait]

In this case, does "SMP" == "running rendering in a separate thread from 
main processing thread"?  And if so, why wouldn't you want that as an 
option?  Especially in this age of hyperthreading on Intel, and 
dual-core/-cpu boxes not far off from the mainstream, and the mac being a 
huge multi-cpu platform...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zachary J. Slater" <zakk at timedoctor.org>
To: <quake3 at icculus.org>
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [quake3] quake3 MacOS hackery, continued...


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| On Nov 28, 2005, at 1:31 AM, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
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| >
| > That's my bug...r_smp was, at best, a performance loss on Linux, at
| > least when we were experimenting at Loki in 2000, so I assumed it
| > sucked
| > on every platform. I'll see what it takes to reenable this on the Mac.
| >
| > --ryan.
| >
|
| SMP support was removed from the makefile some time ago intentionally.
| I'd prefer it gone on every platform.
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|