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On a mid-range desktop PC, the horsepower breakdown is something like: 100% everything, 75% GPU, 25% all CPUs, 5% one CPU including SIMD, 1% a single CPU runnin
by corysama 10y ago
On a mid-range desktop PC, the horsepower breakdown is something like: 100% everything, 75% GPU, 25% all CPUs, 5% one CPU including SIMD, 1% a single CPU running scalar code.
I love Python. But, it's good to remember sometimes that it runs at about 1% efficiency compared to well-optimized C. So, you paid for a whole machine and you are utilizing 0.01%. That's fine for a lot of tasks; especially tasks that are 99% I/O-bound or tasks that are just coordinating big C libraries to do 99% of the work. Just good to remember sometimes...
- noobiemcfoob 10y agoHedging around these statements is important, but far too often I see people convinced they are in the 1% of tasks that truly need top level performance. Which is to say, I often see people who are wrong.