I'd like to have 4096 of them. Well, not really - even if the computer was free, I couldn't pay for the electricity to run it. Of course the hardware isn't free. We all want the best computer that makes sense for us, everybody hates "Please twiddle your thumbs while Word loads".
On the other hand, whether you use those cores or not depends on a lot of things. How hard you're hitting your computer, for one. What types of workload it runs. What particular software you use, and how well it's broken into threads.
I read a great article on the subject, responding to an article about multi cores being hype. It goes over the pros and cons, but it's written by an experimental computer programmer. Interesting stuff, if, like me, you're a geek extraordinaire.
http://www.thinkingparallel.com/2007...lution-a-hype/ |
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