V4 Wish List

 From:  Michael Gibson
6925.104 In reply to 6925.103 
Hi Marco,

re:
> This fundamental porting to 64bit environment that you are working on, will
> give us some SPECIFIC advantage when running on the new 7th generation Intel i7 ?
> (more cores, more thread, new gfx subset, new floating point instruction set, larger cache).

Are you asking something like will MoI make use of some special unique function in this CPU that will suddenly make things work 10 times better than before?

No, it's generally not very feasible to do a lot of special case work to target one specific CPU release, because it's time consuming work that isn't able to be used by most people. Also it takes a while for compilers to catch up, so it's not like you can expect a current compiler to do anything special for a specific CPU right when that CPU is released.

But general improvements like larger cache and better integrated graphics would be incremental improvements for MoI as well I would think.

- Michael