Does Xara in any of its flavors have a switch, ini, registry entry, option (call it what you will) that takes advantage of dual processors?
I have a pre-dual-core 2-Xeon workstation... software that supports dual processors works... duh... about twice as fast.
I'm asking because I've foolishly traced a highly detailed bitmap. The result is a 5MB .xar file that takes forever to work on. E.g., I asked Xara Xtreme 2.0f to select all (so I can simplify it) and it's still thinking about it, 8 minutes later. (No, I don't know how many points and fills.) And these are dual 2GHz Xeons... according to Windows Task Manager, one CPU is chugging away at 33%, the other at 73%, and I still have about 48% system idle process.
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