Leopard Multi-processing question

[supanatral]

In Snow leopard, they say that its suppose to handle multiple processors much more efficiently. The articles usually concentrate on 4 or 8 cores though. My question is would it be much of an improvement for someone who has a new MacBook Pro which only has two processors?

Addition: I also understand that we don't know too much about snow leopard yet but how effenciant is Leopard with dual processors?

 

[DeltaMac]

One of the design goals of Snow Leopard (so I understand), is to off-load certain types of processing to the graphics processor, which will often have much of its processing capabilities unused. As you know, the new MacBook Pro has two graphics chips, so you don't have just two processor cores. With the graphics cores at your disposal (with Snow Leopard, anyway), you have dual CPU cores, and 2 other possible processors for use by the system. Anyway, that's the possibility.

Certain apps do not cooperate well with both cores, and seem to use only one core. However, the OS X system works fairly well to share out the processing. Leopard just doesn't go out to the graphics cores. Snow Leopard may give you additional performance, eh?