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Re:Apple M1 Ultra by yuuko11 on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @03:14PM (#30606188)
Not sure what is required of a dev, but as an example, Adobe Premiere pro doesn't take any advantage of >1 CPU, at least on Windows. https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Should-you-use-a-...
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Re:Apple M1 Ultra by masklinn on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @03:38PM (#30606519)
It’s probably not “average developer” either but some of the big box software still has per-socket licensing, or had until recently anyway.
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Re:Apple M1 Ultra by AdrianB1 on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @03:42PM (#30606577)
CPU as in core or socket? These days most CPUs are "many-CPU-cores-in-1-socket" and having X CPU cores over 1 or 2 sockets make a small difference, but software does not care about sockets.
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Re:Apple M1 Ultra by aidenn0 on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @03:45PM (#30606638)
Plenty of enterprise software is licensed on a per-socket basis.
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Re:Apple M1 Ultra by pphysch on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @04:56PM (#30607695)
And if they read this press release they will probably try to switch to per-core licensing.
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Re:Apple M1 Ultra by w0mbat on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @03:39PM (#30606526)
Article is 5 years old.
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