Of course this fight is not over, and I agree with your points to some degree or other (especially "they might not wait as often" - memory access being the bott

Of course this fight is not over, and I agree with your points to some degree or other (especially "they might not wait as often" - memory access being the bottleneck is in my experience less likely for a moderately sized multi-CPU system; and as to room to improve power savings - muscle needs calories :) In fact my point was only that fight is never over, as a counterpoint to "brawny cores beat wimpy cores most of the time" - not that the reverse statement is true.