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Re:iPhone 6 and 6 Plus not as bendy as believed by Geee on Saturday September 27, 2014 @01:18AM (#8376153)
No, iPhone's A8 is optimized for single-core performance, which is way more meaningful in real applications than combined multi-core performance. 99% of apps run on single core. Although, A8's combined multi-core performance is also on par with other high-end smartphones.

See comparison to SGS5 in Geekbench 3: http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/wp-content/phoneimages/iPhone-...

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Re:iPhone 6 and 6 Plus not as bendy as believed by potatolicious on Saturday September 27, 2014 @01:53AM (#8376204)
> "99% of apps run on single core."

This really isn't true. A rudimentary "Hello World" app, maybe, but all of the common apps that are being run are heavily multithreaded.

Even an app that just uses stock/fairly common libs (like AFNetworking) is going to be multithreaded by virtue of those things alone.

Multi-core performance is critical in the iOS ecosystem, single-core is hardly a concern anymore.

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Re:iPhone 6 and 6 Plus not as bendy as believed by kec on Saturday September 27, 2014 @10:42AM (#8377130)
Just because an app is multithreaded doesn't mean it's going to scale to use more than one core on average. It doesn't matter if you can do networking in a background thread if your UI is just going to block until the results come in.
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Re:iPhone 6 and 6 Plus not as bendy as believed by manmal on Saturday September 27, 2014 @02:47AM (#8376295)
I think the GP's implication is that the A8 can deal we'll with apps that primarily work on the main/UI thread - which most apps do.
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