> Also, they say consumer CPUs have 2-16 cores. (Who has 2 cores these days?) Pretty sure my mom's laptop has 2 cores; I can't think of anyone whose daily driv

> Also, they say consumer CPUs have 2-16 cores. (Who has 2 cores these days?) Pretty sure my mom's laptop has 2 cores; I can't think of anyone whose daily driver has 16 cores. Real cores, not hyperthread stuff running at 0.3× the performance of a real core. As for the 128-core server system, note that those cores are typically about as powerful as a 2008 notebook. My decade-old laptop CPU outperforms what you get at DigitalOcean today, and storage performance is a similar story. The sheer number makes up for it, of course, but "number of cores" is not a 1:1 comparable metric. Agree, though, that the 10x speedup seems low. Perhaps, at 0.4s, a relatively large fraction of that time is spent on initializing the Python runtime (`time python3 -c 'print("1337")'` = 60ms), the module they import that needs to do device discovery, etc.? Hashcat, for example, takes like 15 seconds to get started even if it then runs very fast after that.