What a huge disappointment; I've a number of new Core i7 laptops running Win7 64bit, but I think ICE may actually be slower on a Quad Core i7 than last year’s simple Dual Core. I'm sitting here looking at the 8 CPUs in Task Manager (4 Cores * 2 HyperThreads/Core) while ICE is composing, but only 1 CPU is maxed while the other 7 are virtually 100% Idle. The industry has been moving performance to MultiThreading for many years now, instead of the defunct megahertz-race, desktops even went Quad Core about a year before laptops. One would hope that MS would lead by example, particularly their Research division, but it appears ICE gets slower as the CPU gets faster. Where is MS Research in regards to MultiThreading? FYI, the stitching function in Live Photo Gallery has equally been gimped to a single-thread.
What a huge disappointment; I've a number of new Core i7 laptops running Win7 64bit, but I think ICE may actually be slower on a Quad Core i7 than last year’s simple Dual Core. I'm sitting here looking at the 8 CPUs in Task Manager (4 Cores * 2 HyperThreads/Core) while ICE is composing, but only 1 CPU is maxed while the other 7 are virtually 100% Idle.
The industry has been moving performance to MultiThreading for many years now, instead of the defunct megahertz-race, desktops even went Quad Core about a year before laptops. One would hope that MS would lead by example, particularly their Research division, but it appears ICE gets slower as the CPU gets faster. Where is MS Research in regards to MultiThreading?
FYI, the stitching function in Live Photo Gallery has equally been gimped to a single-thread.