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--- Quote from: SavannahLion on February 26, 2009, 01:04:36 am ---...it would be a moot point until MAME can take advantage of the multiple core CPU's.
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Mame does take advantage multiple cores with current mame (IIRC, post 0.123, & just before that mame could use only two cores well). 

However, due to emulation's interdependence of calculation, it can't parallelize to the level that cluster computing needs to help.  Clusters/farms need calculations that can be calculated totally independent of the other calculations done by the other computer to work well.  Some video processing can be parallelized a lot; 3d video rendering can be even more so since the top left side has zero relation to what's in the lower right  (except for maybe shadows).  Emulation can only be parallelized to a certain point (which mame is doing), but nothing close to farmings.

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