> developers will need to write code that can take advantage of them In the said case of parallel compilation of, say, JS, it's only a tiny minority of the dev

> developers will need to write code that can take advantage of them In the said case of parallel compilation of, say, JS, it's only a tiny minority of the developers who need to be able to do so. > It might be still more useful to build bigger 4-core processors It would have been great if we could build any bigger cores. Unfortunately, there is not much scope for improvement left, not unless we ditch the existing ISAs and programming models.