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1. fifilura · 1789637679 · focus · HN ↗

   Hot take... There is something about programming projects spending 10x (or 1000x) the effort to parallelize execution when everything is still restricted by von Neumann architecture.

   1. wannabe44 · 1789640348 · focus · HN ↗

      This. I don't want your browser engine to use all my cores. I want the rest of my cores to be compiling C++.

      1. speed_spread · 1789646871 · focus · HN ↗

         It's more efficient to use all the cores briefly and go back to whatever background task than have long running mixed load. This also matches performance expectations, you generally want the web page displayed _now_ and the compile to finish ASAP while accepting it will take _some_ time.

         1. wannabe44 · 1789652457 · focus · HN ↗

            You're underestimating web developers.

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