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Q: What will a more powerful CPU core do in a comparatively slow environment that is the rest of the computer? A: Wait faster!
by userulluipeste 13y ago
Q: What will a more powerful CPU core do in a comparatively slow environment that is the rest of the computer?
A: Wait faster!
- bcoates 13y agoA lot of that comparative slowness was caused by mechanical storage, replacing it with parallel and lower-latency SSDs makes it a lot easier to get full use out of more and faster cores. It doesn't cost much to set up a system that's completely CPU-limited on OLAP database-like workloads these days. I suspect that as more software stops being optimized for ~10ms serial disk I/O with huge caches this will become more common and more and faster cores will be a big(er) deal.
- jevinskie 13y agoCompiling big projects (10+ minutes) is still a big use case for a beefy CPU.