The Reg speaks to former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer
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Interview Everyone remembers their first time. It might be Commodore-flavoured, or carry a whiff of Sinclair about it. For former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer, it was a TRS-80 in a 1979 Radio Shack.
Plummer now runs a YouTube channel stuffed full of nerdery, though decades ago he played a role in the rise of Microsoft, contributed to MS-DOS, wrote Windows components familiar to all, and stuffed Microsoft Bob into XP s box.
The Register had a chat with him about how it all began.
zitto » Sun Dec 13, 2020 6:26 pm
Eddy Deegan wrote:I suspect this is because Studio One is only using a couple of cores on the CPU to do the processing you are asking it to. The overall 20% usage (of which 17.6% comprises Studio One) shown in the Windows Task Manager represents the busy portion of the total capacity of the CPU as a whole, across all 8 cores.
If 2 cores were working flat out and the rest were idle then the task manager would show about 25% CPU usage on an 8 core system.
I do not know how Studio One allocates resources across the CPU but from the image you showed it would appear that a lot of work is being done by a small number of cores, which are working very hard to keep up.