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Re:Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation by oblio on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:33PM (#26094368)
Yeah, it's a chicken and egg problem. Old software doesn't use many cores, and even new, single threaded one doesn't (Javascript, Python, Ruby, etc.).

Because software doesn't really need many cores, no need to create CPUs with many, many cores.

I imagine the cycle's going to break at some point, after all we can only ignore having many cores for so long. Especially that now even mobile devices routinely have at least 4 cores.

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Re:Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation by bzbarsky on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:54PM (#26094629)
Mobile devices in the field typically have _more_ cores that desktop devices. The Firefox hardware report is strongly influenced by there being a lot more desktop than mobile Firefox users.

As you note, the modal number of cores on mobile has been 4-6 for a while now.

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