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It depends what you mean by extinct. I can't think of any actual computer outside of embedded that has been single core for at least a decade. The Core Duo and
by naming_the_user 2y ago
It depends what you mean by extinct.
I can't think of any actual computer outside of embedded that has been single core for at least a decade. The Core Duo and Athlon X2 were released almost 20 years ago now and within a few years basically everything was multicore.
(When did we get old?)
If you mean that single core workloads will be extinct, well, that's a harder sell.
- simonw 2y agoYeah, I just checked and even a RaspberryPi has four cores these days. So I guess they went extinct a long time ago!
- formerly_proven 2y agoEven many microcontrollers have multiple cores nowadays. It’s not the norm just yet, though.
- poincaredisk 2y agoYes, but: * Most of the programs I write are not (trivially) parallelizable, and a the bottleneck is still a single core performance * There is more than one process at any time, especially on servers. Other cores are also busy and have their own work to do.
- deadbunny 2y agoYes, but: 1. Other people with different needs exist. 2. That's why we have schedulers.