Hey everyone. I'm currently in the process of trying to decide configuration for a new build. It will primarily be used for pro-audio work (editing, samples, etc). Unfortunately pretty much everything out there is for Windows/Mac but I do know that some should work under Wine. My question is whether anyone can recommend the best set-up to utilise wine. Should I go for a fast single core or a multicore processor. Can you open and run concurrent wine applications and have them assigned to a single core? Any help would be appreciated. J.
> Should I go for a fast single core or a multicore processor.Single core x86 processors have not been made for several years (well except the Atom processor). Get a Dual core or a Quad core. John
Wine has been focused on correctness, not performance, so not too many people have explored this kind of question. (My guess is multicore is a good idea, partly because every wine app needs to talk to wineserver, which is a separate process. You can probably use normal linux tools to assign wine apps to particular cores, although then you need to think about whether you want wineserver on the same core or not, I suppose.)