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Re:Intel’s High-End Cascade Lake CPUs to Support 3.84 TB of ... by gameswithgo on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @11:14AM (#17550223)
There is definitely room to improve how often and efficiently desktop software utilizes more cores, but I don't expect it will be common that ~32 cores gets you much gain over ~8. But when you do have a workload that can benefit, like if you know GCC will compile a huge c++ project linearly faster up to 32 cores, then it is VERY welcome!
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Re:Intel’s High-End Cascade Lake CPUs to Support 3.84 TB of ... by rbanffy on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @04:25PM (#17553002)
If you have cores to spare, you can do incremental compilation every time you save a file. You can also do a lot of speculative work that may be thrown away but, in case it's needed, it's already done.

There is no such thing as too many cores ;-)

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