For techies especially: dual processor support?

[DGehman]

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.

[Charles Moir]

No Xtreme doesn't yet take advantage of multiple processors. Converting programs written for single processors to run on multiple processors is a huge and complicated task. It's on the wish list for future versions however, as we know multiple processors are the future.

[DGehman]

Thanks, Charles. By the way, many many thanks for that arrowhead Shape Editor tool that has saved me from having to master Bezier curve handles -- truly a genius concept.

Hope the multiple-processor project works out. As a non-techie member of a company dabbling in massively parallel computing in the 1980s, I dimly remember engineers squabbling about how tasks should be divided up for what processing... good luck!

[Skaven252]

I've got a Core 2 Quad, so I'll be vewy happy when multiple processors get supported. (Even though; Xara already runs like a breeze)