Timeline for Why is multithreading not used everywhere?
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| Jul 11, 2020 at 21:44 | comment | added | qwr | This is an important answer. A lot of programs used every day are not speed limited at all, like my word processor or terminal. | |
| Jul 11, 2020 at 20:17 | comment | added | Johannes Pille | The business value argument is not to be neglected indeed. Also, if you can't scale directly from 1 to 24 threads, but - say - to only 3 and your data isn't well aligned, false sharing might just make your code take 12 days to run now. Not a purely hypothetical scenario. | |
| Jul 11, 2020 at 20:12 | history | answered | gnasher729 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |