Computer Speed Gains Erased By Modern Software
hackaday.com
[Julio] has an older computer sitting on a desk, and recorded a quick video with it showing how fast this computer can do seemingly simple things, like open default Windows applications including t…

Interesting take on comparability vs performance. I gotta imaging capturing user data and sending to a cloud collector is also a big culprit.

  • CoderKatEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You can’t automatically adapt that. Multi thread safe programming takes extra work (or certain languages or frameworks that are able to optimize this). And even then, not all types of tasks make sense to multithread.

    The OS still does take advantage of multiple cores, though. You never have just one process running. The OS will schedule different processes on different cores.