> when you actually need good performance for something that doesn't scale so well horizontally Truth is, you don't have the right to need fast cores any more.

> when you actually need good performance for something that doesn't scale so well horizontally Truth is, you don't have the right to need fast cores any more. Those times are over, when you could write poor code and buy a more expensive CPU. Now, if you want your software to scale, it's up to you to make it scale horizontally. Either this, or suck it up!