Multi-core scaling: it’s not multi-threaded

I’m writing a series of posts based on my Shmoocon talk. In this post, I’m going to discuss “multi-core scaling”. In the decade leading to 2001, Intel CPUs went from 33-MHz to 3-GHz, a thousand-fold hundred-fold increase in speed. In the decade since, they’ve been stuck at 3-GHz. Instead of faster clock speeds, they’ve been getting more logic. Instead of one instruction per clock cycle, they now e

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