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Re:Pessimism about parallelism by rossdavidh on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @10:09AM (#18762479)
This would make it a much better idea to run on a machine with only the cores you are using, though, yes?
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Re:Pessimism about parallelism by marcosdumay on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @02:32PM (#18764183)
At some point you want those 16 cores so MS Word will have an acceptable performance, even if your auto-routing electrical CAD uses just 1 of them to solve its own NP-hard problem.
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