Yeah, I agree overall, but my complaint was that the author was covering literally "desktop" usages. > The moral of the story is that today's software was desi

Yeah, I agree overall, but my complaint was that the author was covering literally "desktop" usages. > The moral of the story is that today's software was designed targeting yesterday's hardware. The problem with CPUs w/ high core counts is that GPU can be more efficient in most cases. The tasks that specifically need CPU are likely complex and dynamic - in terms of codeflow and dataflow - so that they can't benefit from SIMD/SPMD. I don't think "desktop" need any such complexities, especially when the actual complexity of desktop software hardly increased for decades except web browsers.