Comment by bad_haircut72
1 day ago
My recent shower thought was the idea that Moores law hasnt slowed at all, we just went multi-core. Its crazy that the intel folks were so interested in optimizing for single thread CPU design they completely misunderstood where the best effort would be spent - if I had been around back then (speaking as an Elixir dev) I would have been way more interested in having 500 theead CPUs than getting down to nanometer scale dies. Thats what you get when everyone on the team is a bunch of C programmers
Intel designed a super high threaded CPU like that, Knightsbridge. It was useless. Single threaded programs are good.
Before LLMs, the use of parallelism on your typical laptop was limited to application level parallelism, e.g. one thread for Outlook and one for each tab in Chrome.