Re: Can Excel and/or other Office Apps take advantage of Dual Core
- From: jkohut <jkohut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 11:54:03 -0700
Thanks, I kind of suspect the same thing your testing indicated. If True, I
think Microsoft really needs to focus on this sort of thing. Office has
gotten a few useful new features of the years, but if necessary better
threading would probably be useful.
Jeff
"Dian D. Chapman, MVP" wrote:
> I don't know for sure if Office is set to take advantage of this, but
> I doubt it. Most apps don't, as that's generally the OS's job. In
> fact, you may even notice them to be slower unless you adjust the
> affinity to become dedicated to one CPU.
>
> I just went through this same situation with a video processing app
> and found it to be become faster and run longer with less processor
> heat when I set it to one processor.
>
> I've also been running similar tests with Word while beta testing my
> own code and it seems to be faster with one.
>
> Don't know if the new duals coming out next week will be a different
> story? You might want to hit the networking or gaming groups where the
> gurus in there have more experience with dual processors and pushing
> the limits.
>
> Dian D. Chapman, Technical Consultant
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> On Fri, 13 May 2005 08:46:09 -0700, jkohut
> <jkohut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Can Office Apps (specifically Excel and Access) in either Office 2000 or
> >Office 2003,
> >take direct advantage of Dual Core processors or are they limited to what XP
> >can do?
> >
> >If there is a boost in Office when running CPU intensive apps (Excel,
> >Access) does anyone have data on how much (I know mileage may very depending
> >upon application, I am talking about running an computation intensive
> >Formula/Macro)?
> >
> >Any detailed information would be appreciated.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Jeff
>
>
.
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