v6.30 client

[theteofscuba]

I have a suggestion for the current 6.30 beta client. in short, default to -smp flag unless either the cpu is single core. allows a manual overriden.

The pseudo code is:

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//something to think about:
/*if(hyperthreading enabled)
	number of cores /= 2;*/

if(single cpu)
	run uniprocessor work units;
else if(manually_specified_number_of_cores)
	run smp client on specified number of cores;
else
	run smp cores on all detected cpu cores automatically;

I like this thought because the newbie users can maximize their contributions without having to put much effort into learning how
to use the current system. considering the v6.30 client already can handle both uniprocessor and smp i presume it wouldn't be terribly difficult to implement

[7im]

Development on v6.x clients has stopped pending the v7 client release.

And this has been suggested before, so hopefully something like this has been incorporated in to v7. One can only hope...