It's still possible for Toady to make an overhaul to make it multithreaded. It'd be hard work, and would probably a take a long time, with the only results being improved performance. It's not something he WANTS to do, you understand? That doesn't mean that it doesn't need to be done. You can stop being a total dickwad any time you'd like, Draco.
As far as the OP goes; I think multithreading is way more likely; not to mention less stressful. As has been mentioned, it won't be 100% supported by all video cards for quite some time. I've got quite the machine running, but I only have dual 7800s, so it would do me no good. I have a dual core, however...
Hello Tylui, since I first saw you in the announcements section I assume you're new here. Otherwise you'd know that this suggestion is in the top-20, which means three things: every 20th thread is about this, the regulars are bloody tired of if popping up, and Toady already is very very well aware of the suggestion.
Nah, I'm not new. I've been a member a year, a month, and 3 days longer than you have, newb, so stay down.
I was not suggesting that Toady put in multithreading; I was replying to Draco's terrible argument, as well as his dickisms. Which you seem to have picked up on. He said that "it needs to be done within the first few days". You can overhaul an application to make it multithreaded any damn time you'd like; it's easier from the "onset", but it's still possible. I'm confident a lot of the popular applications weren't multithreaded in old versions, and now they are, for example.
And if you even READ my post, I addressed why it won't get done: Toady doesn't want to because it would take a very long time and would be of small tangible gain. Sure, we'd get better performance, but that isn't exactly a new feature, or anything fun.
Thank you, loser, for understanding how I feel about these people. "Elitist" is like the perfect word.