This reminds me of the 'transition' to multi-core code started in the "Core" days (or actually AMD's Athlon X2). The switch to multi-core/thread/process (as thi

This reminds me of the 'transition' to multi-core code started in the "Core" days (or actually AMD's Athlon X2). The switch to multi-core/thread/process (as this all were steps towards such approach) needed to be implemented by all layers (h/w, os, s/w). We're now getting from symmetrical to heterogeneous computing becoming the mains-stream on all platforms. Just a few weeks ago there was here the issue with measuring efficiency which is flawed on Apple's Activity Monitor. As the multi-thread code paradigms thrived, asymmetrical-cores will also become part of the toolchain eventually.