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Road lanes are like CPU cores. And like CPUs, adding more cores does not linearly scale up traffic capacity. In the case of CPUs, there's sync and communicatio
by KingMob 1y ago
Road lanes are like CPU cores. And like CPUs, adding more cores does not linearly scale up traffic capacity.
In the case of CPUs, there's sync and communication overhead; for highways, there's more turbulence and slowdown generated by lane-switching.
- seanmcdirmid 1y agoThat's why we are focusing on adding GPU cores instead, but they can only do the same operation on a lot of data in parallel (much like mass transit).
- rcpt 1y agoAdding more lanes encourages more driving. That's why it never reduces traffic
- ceejayoz 1y agoSame with computers. More power and bandwidth and storage space has largely meant our apps and websites have grown to fill it.