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Re: Can we have a Delta-DVD release



On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 19:54 -0400, Andre Robatino wrote:
> Does applydeltaiso make use of multiple cores, or just one?  I'm 
> guessing just one.  It probably doesn't need that much memory, either, 
> since it only processes one package at a time and reads/writes to disk.

If it is an IO bound operation, multicore isn't going to do you any good
and quite likely only makes things worse.

Multithreading isn't a magic performance generating pony.

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