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I have probably too many cores on my music production Mac, and I definitely would rather have faster single-threaded performance, even if it meant half the core
by ksaj 3y ago
I have probably too many cores on my music production Mac, and I definitely would rather have faster single-threaded performance, even if it meant half the cores I currently have available.
I mean, I'm pretty happy with it. But the workload is only marginally faster/smoother than it would be with half the cores, and still sometimes feels sluggish. Law of diminishing returns, for sure. It never hangs on a hard load though, but I feel that would be the same with fewer but faster cores anyway.
- musicale 3y agoMusic production seems like a great "embarassingly parallel" application since instrument voices tend to be independent and effects chains are readily pipelined. Multicore should provide direct benefit in terms of more tracks, more instrument voices, and deeper effects chains. What is the single-threaded workload that is sluggish? Is it something like encoding or compression?
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