Relatively few workloads live in tight-loops, they tend to jump around (busting the pipeline and idling for relative eons). Those that do (and are important) te

Relatively few workloads live in tight-loops, they tend to jump around (busting the pipeline and idling for relative eons). Those that do (and are important) tend to get run on HPC clusters. Media encoding is a good example but even that is being HW offloaded these days. Look up some of the Jim Keller interviews on YouTube if you're interested in learning more.