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Hey All
I am currently developing installater for my software using Installshield but Installshield not one of the best thing to work with! Had heaps of issues.
I wonder what would one suggest to develop installer with and why!
Sorry for asking this question here.
Thanks
Mohit
modified on Monday, February 23, 2009 4:32 PM
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With the math coprocessor?
Or would a modern PC with an nVidea chip count as multiples because of their new API?
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Nah, you’d be in the same boat as the Sx people. 
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Is the coprocessor central?
And what about the 486SX I had, once I added the "overdrive" chip?
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 oh man...
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i have an intel core 2 duo it is pretty good!
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As I would have thought two is the majority. Now the next question is how many applications can even take advantage of two? Not everyone write true multi-threadde apps.
cheers,
Donsw
My Recent Article : Optimistic Concurrency with C# using the IOC and DI Design Patterns
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That's one thing that will be amazing with Apple's Snow Leopard. It will allow developers to easily take advantage of how many cores the user has.
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The same goes for .Net 4.0 
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I have been using 2 processors at home in my main development machine since 1994. This was at first with dual 133 MHz Pentium but I upgraded at least 7 times and all but 1 were more than 1 core. The most expensive upgrade was dual Opteron 250s and 4GB registered of memory in 2005. That ran me over 1100 and the cheapest upgrade was a Quad core Q9550 which I got motherboard + cpu + 6GB of memory + new 650W 80+ power supply for $400 US on black Friday with the help of live.com 30% cash back. Anyways as a programmer I have been writing multi-threaded applications for at least 10 years.
John
modified on Monday, February 23, 2009 8:40 AM
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With PLINQ everybody can do dual-core and more 
I work on WPF frontends and although they work with async operations all over the place, I can't really say that it is a true multi-core enabled application. The background work is still done on a single thread and I haven't optimized the code for more threads, except of course for the async calls to the backend.
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I use a dual core W2k8 x64 box as my main development machine, and a dual core laptop for admin and mobile stuff. In addition - I run our build server (a dual core W2k3 box), and have another 3 desktop systems (one dual core; 2 single core) and a dual core laptop for testing.
To add to that I've a quad core Q9550 box "on the way" which I'm likely to use alongside the main dev box.
When we put them all into a grid all bets are off, of course. Our code analysis grid has something like 10 agents with up to 24 cores - when it's running full pelt it's rather fun to watch the progress bars zipping along and (hopefully) going green rather than yellow or red. 
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When I am not at work or develop for a client of mine, I use a Commodore 128 to write small games or programs. Does that mean that I work on a dual-core computer? Hahaha!!!
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Palavos wrote: When I am not at work or develop for a client of mine, I use a Commodore 128 to write small games or programs. Does that mean that I work on a dual-core computer?
That's 'hard-core' computing to me!. Two extra points if you use CP/M on the C=128
-=[ R ]=-
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Rogelio Perea wrote: Two extra points if you use CP/M on the C=128
Back in the day I bought the manual and software and intended to use that but before I got there I replaced the commodore with a 486.
John
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If I dump one of our Intellect 3.0 screen savers (2 files; scr & dll) on a box, I can drive it from my laptop as a "Voluntary Computing Node", together with all the rest, as one little itty bitty super computer. Otherwise, my lappie just has 2 cores.
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I guess that would depend, at least partially, if that was the regular way you handled operations of that machine, or an occasional usage. Since I proved my theories for processing enough that my boss finally put in the requisition for a Tesla, this is how I use the machine, it is its purpose, and its intended and usual function. I am sure others will not appreciate my definition, but hey, it is just a poll. I am using nv280's until my Tesla comes in, still, that is its purpose, its design.
If you use a grid as your regular and everyday workhorse, my feeling is heck yeah, then you can use that as your core count.  but who am I but a crazy C/C++ programmer. 
modified on Monday, February 23, 2009 1:50 AM
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One processor for Vista and its sniffing services and one for me 
Greetings from Germany
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At work on linux I have the and use the ability to build with > 32 cores using a distcc or more recently icecream. This really speeds up building on slower machines. However with zippy quad cores this does not help much since the io becomes more of a bottleneck than the cpu speed.
http://distcc.samba.org/[^]
http://en.opensuse.org/Icecream[^]
John
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I borrow 240 streaming processors from my nVidia... worse, I regularly borrow two sets of them. My work machine has 8 cores, I have access to 64 or more depending on if I activate a grid. Still, when I pull in the nVidia CPUs I can outdo the older 64 node super computer.
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LOL I just knew there's be a "more than 100" answer from you. 
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just wait until I get my 4 GPU Tesla... I am already doing fluid dynamics and physics calculations at speeds that exceed any super computer we have ever owned. And I only have one card at work, and two at home. When I get four?
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I bet. Sounds like a fun rig - are you going to put a CB and go-faster stripes on it?
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote: are you going to put a CB and go-faster stripes on it?
oh no... but I might have to calculate the RF communication distance of the CB through rough terrain as well as the ambient reflection of the racing stripes.... does that count?
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I'm sure it does. 
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