With a multi-core system I was told the cpu's should balance the load evenly. Dreamweaver seems to eat up one of the cores the entire time it runs

Whoever told you this lied.

Applications will only use one processor unless they are specifically programmed to use more than one. Multithreading an existing application suite is difficult and expensive, so relatively few companies have bothered doing it.

Also: Dreamweaver using up all that CPU proves the point that Dreamweaver sucks.

agreed.. im on a new app hunt right now

I'd love to hear what you come up with, I use Dreamweaver myself but would love a better option.

nvu

Notepad.

notepad :p comon this isn't 1998



that actually looks like exactly what I am after

Seconded

Zan I've been using Crimson since Z2 and before haha

No, it's 2008.

You should still learn using notepad.

Coda if you're using Mac.

PSPad or Komodo IDE if you're using Windows.

Crimson editor is like notepad with syntax highlighting.

Crimson Editor (and many other applications) is essentially notepad: 2008 edition. It just has syntax highlighting and numerous other features that just help you work with your raw code. No point and click/drag and drop crap.

It's also ugly as sin. Editors made in the past 4 years have way more features, look better, and are more customizable.

Notepad++, has syntax highlighting for a ton of stuff.

not to mention tabs for multiple open files is necessary.

whats to learn about notepad? it's a text editor.

Rob thinks you're using the visual designer in Dreamweaver and probably isn't aware that it has an awesome autocomplete function for code.

Aptana Studio is the best free alternative, and in some ways is better.

I have traditionally used Notepad, but I am loving Notepad++.

then what's so good about core 2 duo's / quad's?

We've hit a glass ceiling in cheap core speeds; it's cheaper to get multiple cores instead of getting faster clock speeds now. AFAIK.

The thing is any operating system now a days can take advantage of multiple cores to run multiple applications side-by-side on different cores.

The issue Zanardi had was that Dreamweaver only supports one core so it is confined to one core. But other apps are free to run on other cores as the OS assigns them. If they only support one core each they are confined their single cores, but the OS spreads those one-core apps equally over all the cores available.

Classical tasks like compression and encryption, physics simulations and rendering are fairly easy to multithread. Algorithms implemented using functional languages, or loop-level parallelization extensions for programming languages let you very easily span code across multiple processors. Newer programming languages and platforms take advantage of a large thread pool - allowing low-latency deferral, asynchronous functions and delegates.

Using all four cores, it takes me around 7 minutes to transcode a full-length movie for my iPod Touch.

Using all two it takes me three hours