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Old 28th December 2019, 16:58   #5  |  Link
johnmeyer
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For the AVISynth part of things, multi-threading is the main way to provide speed increases. You can often get 2-5 times faster performance, but only with scripts which use functions that permit multi-threading.

As for newer computers being faster, that sadly just isn't very true anymore. Its been about fifteen years since clock speeds maxed out at around 3-4 GHz. That's the end of the line for copper-based interconnections. All the performance gains since then have from parallelism, of which multi-threading is one example. If the software being run can't take advantage of that, you won't get any performance improvement with a newer computer.

I'm still using the computer I bought eleven years ago. I'm about to upgrade the processor (I got the fastest available back then, but a couple of years later Intel came out with a better CPU that is compatible with my MB), but other than that, I see no reason to get a new computer.
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