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[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

It definitely is not. The relationship between Floating Points Per Second, or FLOPS, and the number of possible Dwarves is much more strongly correlated. My 3 gigahertz AMD Phenom II can handle a 200 pop fort with around 50 to 100 frames per second depending on the amount of activity, even though it's technically slower in frequency tan Maggarg's.

But do you have a leaky waterfall, awfully designed 2-tile wide corridors and 200 animals?

[Ampersand]

That map had an underground river, so yes, Waterfall. Completely undesignated 3 tile wide hallways, and a chasm full of god knows what. I did periodically slaughter the puppies and kittens, though.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

That map had an underground river, so yes, Waterfall. Completely undesignated 3 tile wide hallways, and a chasm full of god knows what. I did periodically slaughter the puppies and kittens, though.

Ah, but I built my waterfall.
It had to go wrong.

[Areyar]

multithreading is what windows pretended to do before multicoreCPUs and Vista: running multiple processes in parallel.
True multi threading requires multiple cpu's or cpu cores, otherwise the supposedly simultaneous threads will have to wait in a cue to being processed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multithreading
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/multithreading.html

The cue can be observed during startup under winXp (or earlier) on a machine with many background programmes slated to be loaded on startup: the machine will appear to be booted up, but will refuse to acknowledge most user inputs untill the entire cue has loaded.
(some processes can be assigned a higher priority though)

[Smitehappy]

I'm glad to hear they're trying something besides jamming more and more cores into cpu. I don't want to have to say icosacore.