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You do have to consider that this is an 8 core, and more and more applications are being developed with this in mind. Whoever still thinks that Single threaded
by Vanayad 10y ago
You do have to consider that this is an 8 core, and more and more applications are being developed with this in mind. Whoever still thinks that Single threaded performance is the most important, lives in the past.
- anthonybsd 10y agoConsumer applications? Doubt it. Not a whole lot of consumer-oriented applications parallelize that well to be honest.
- qaq 10y agolook at how many threads your Chrome is running
- yborg 10y agoAll but one set (for the active tab) of which are probably idle or effectively so most of the time.
- whyever 10y agoOnly Servo parallelizes single-page rendering as far as I know.
- anentropic 10y agobut they're moving in that direction
- MLR 10y agoThis review has a CPU web test section, you can see performance is mostly a function of IPC and clock speed.
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- caf 10y agoEven crusty old Microsoft Excel parallelises worksheet recalculation.
- smitherfield 10y agoSure, but Excel is presumably one of the most optimized (in terms of the amount of money and brainpower devoted to optimizing it) applications in existence.
- caf 10y agoThat's not the feeling you get when you use it, it seems more like the underlying engine hasn't really changed a great deal in 20 years.
- smitherfield 10y agoThat's the price of backward compatibility. But I think it's a bit of a "Seinfeld is unfunny"[1] situation; if Microsoft decided to save on the nine-figure budget and outsource Excel development to, say, your favorite purveyor of antivirus software, you'd notice real fast. [1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny (apologies for the TVTropes link at night!)
- anentropic 10y agodon't you run more than one of them at a time though?
- Geee 10y agoThat's not true. 2 weak horses != 1 strong horse. 1 strong horse can do the work of 2 weak horses, but not the other way around. A single core can run multiple threads, but multiple cores can't work together on a single-thread task.
- timlin 10y agoActually, 2 weak horses could probably equal 1 strong horse. http://timmaurer.com/2012/01/16/horse-sense/ http://timmaurer.com/2012/01/16/horse-sense/ https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-two-horses-pulling-together-can-pull-more-than-the-sum-of-the-two-horses-pulling-separately https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-two-horses-pulling-tog...