Re:Pessimism about parallelism
by mattnewport on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @10:39AM
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> Most desktop software does not use more than 1 core because most desktop software does not need anything near 1 full core. How much processing can it take to show you a button?
It seems like this ought to be true but in practice it's not, though the problem appears to be more due to developers not paying enough attention to performance than to fundamental limitations of the hardware. I can think of very few applications that I use on a day to day basis that do not have multiple areas where I wish they performed better.
It seems like this ought to be true but in practice it's not, though the problem appears to be more due to developers not paying enough attention to performance than to fundamental limitations of the hardware. I can think of very few applications that I use on a day to day basis that do not have multiple areas where I wish they performed better.