Many problems are bandwidth-limited. More cores may indeed actually hurt performance as contention for the limiting resource makes it increasingly hard for any

Many problems are bandwidth-limited. More cores may indeed actually hurt performance as contention for the limiting resource makes it increasingly hard for any core to run efficiently. https://superuser.com/questions/2489/cpu-cores-the-more-the-better https://superuser.com/questions/2489/cpu-cores-the-more-the-...