I don't know about Cadcamnet, but Anandtech has a report today to the contrary.
Microns bring you more GHz and more transistors. You need more transistors for 64 bits.
64 bits brings you essentially more RAM, not much more power for CAD (floating point).But you also need more transistors for dual cores processors, which will bring you true dual processing at lower cost and without the FSB bottleneck.
*IF* SW was preparing its code to take advantage of multiprocessing (parallelisation, thread-safe, ...) it *COULD* explain some speed/reliability issues in the latest versions and *WOULD* open a brighter future... Just my 2 eurocents guess...
That's certainly plausible. Dual cores are coming, both for Intel and AMD. The only issue is the fact that SW has always denied that there was any useful parallelism in solving models. Any speculation where they could actually find some parallelism? I'm thinking assemblies are a candidate, since more than one model will need to be updated in many rebuilds. What about individual parts? Could the FMT be analyzed for independent branches?
"Dale Dunn" wrote
Certainly.
Check your parts FMT (which is actually a graph) with
I believe parallelism can be exploited at an even finer grain, for example to compute faces in shells. But these are more related to Parasolid than SW.
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