> In addition, multicore will become critical for computer music, of that I am 
> sure, enabling more and more realistic physical modeling at a bare minimum.

VERY preliminary, and not totally the same, but a student here has
Csound running reliably in two cores at faster speeds.  This is his
undergraduate final year project so is still incomplete, but it looks
promising.  Best so far is "Electric Priest" that does from 53s to
34s; "Xanadu" is less good at only 10% gain.  "Trapped.." only shows
16% gain.  These results are before final tuning of the algorithm.  We
hope to get access to a quadcore over Easter.

The mechanisms are written up in an unpublished paper, and will be in
his dissertation in May/June.

==John ffitch