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64% of Machines Report Multiple Cores -- Unity Web Player Q2 2010

• JabavuAdams 16y ago
  It makes me sad that CPython is so broken for multi-core.
• mahmud 16y ago
  This statistic is a bit skewed. They obtained the data from the users of their plugin. Unity makes a 3D graphics plugin for browsers, sorta like flash but higher performance. However, their users are 100% gamers. Show me any modern 3D gaming machine that isn't beefed up. Hardly a representative sample.
  • JabavuAdams 16y ago
    Yeah, but the web player is largely used for casual games. So, these aren't typically people's hot-rodded over-clocked systems. Also, we're looking at CPU cores, not GPUs, which (especially on the Mac side) are not a user-serviceable component. So, I'd say this is at least representative of Mac casual gamers with default hardware.
• spitfire 16y ago
  This is sort of neat. If you look at the statistics, most of the people are still running with 2gb/1gb ram, =< 256meg vram, IE: an older system. I've got a 2007 imac with 4gig. and I'm slightly above the curve wrt ram. So the takeaway seems to be target 2-3 year old computers. The fact that it comes from casual users (the mass audience) makes it even more potent.