Mandelbrot Shader: Holy Effing Crap!
Absolute times to calculate a fixed range of the Mandelbrot set:
Machine Concurrency Language Time
Dual-Opteron Singlethreaded C# \~0.81
Dual-Opteron Multithreaded C# \~0.45
Dual-Opteron Singlethreaded C++ \~0.50
Dual-Opteron Multithreaded C++ \~0.38
XBox 360 Singlethreaded C# \~4.4
XBox 360 Multithreaded C# \~2.1
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