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2023-05-26, 09:07

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Originally Posted by Kickaha View Post
And yes, more cores is absolutely the right approach. Cranking up clock speed? Okay… a 50% clock speed improvement (like we’ve seen that in years) and you get how much improvement?

Now compare that to going from one core to eight.
Sure, but it'd be going from twenty cores (which the Studio already has) to forty. Or eighty. There's… diminishing returns at that point.

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That scales… assuming you have a programming model, language semantics, and compiler tool chain that supports it.
IOW, it barely does.
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