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Single core performance is so much more important for most workloads (and harder to achieve) than higher core count.
by baisq 4y ago
Single core performance is so much more important for most workloads (and harder to achieve) than higher core count.
- rbanffy 4y agoI think it’s a real shame we haven’t learned to use more threads and cores in our software. It’s not like having dozens of small cores is something new.
- jgon 4y agoI wonder if we’ll see more of a movement towards virtual threads Java Loom style where cheap threads in the language and cheap cores on the cpu will combine to create a programming style where you’ll just dispatch little worklets all over the place without worry about “is this a large enough amount of work to justify a thread” the way we do now. I also wonder if that will cause a trend towards optimizing startup latency in both language threads and the efficiency cores.
- rbanffy 4y agoI think there’s a Smalltalk implementation that tries to do something like that.