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"Few people appreciate it" because it's no longer relevant with modern operating systems and programs for the vast majority of users and applications, which is
by KennyBlanken 4y ago
"Few people appreciate it" because it's no longer relevant with modern operating systems and programs for the vast majority of users and applications, which is why in almost every market imaginable, CPUs and SoCs have migrated toward higher core counts.
It takes a special sort of arrogance to look at literally the entire industry and go "psssst, savages don't know what they're doing. Single core performance is where it's at."
- flykespice 4y ago> because it's no longer relevant with modern operating systems and programs for the vast majority of users and applications The article just proves you wrong Apple's products are lightyears ahead from Android phones in perfomance. Apple CPU design always put single core perfomance upfront, because they know most application are still optimized to single core usage. how is not not relevant?
- dontlaugh 4y agoVery little of the hot loop involving user interaction will ever use more than one core. Single core performance is still the most important.
- kaba0 4y agoNo longer relevant, wtf? It’s just that not much improvement can be done in single thread performance anymore and it is much more easier to design and market “n times as many cores” then “we bumped single threaded performance by 0.2%”. Mind you, almost every single application you have will ultimately depend on single threaded performance, relatively few problems can even theoretically make use of multiple cores, let alone are programmed to do so. Sure, multiple single-threaded process will like more available cores, but it is more limited on mobile devices, where few very fast cores and more slower ones are the norm.