Yes, but practically speaking, waiting 20 years isn't an option. Moore's Law has stopped delivering rapid single-threaded performance gains and not everything i

Yes, but practically speaking, waiting 20 years isn't an option. Moore's Law has stopped delivering rapid single-threaded performance gains and not everything is trivially parallelable. The fastest single-threaded cpus today are only 2x faster than the fastest single-threaded cpus of a decade ago...