Comment by VorpalWay
3 months ago
Compilers and test suits do scale (at least for C/C++ and Rust, which is what I work with). But I think the parent comment referred to consumer applications: games, word processing, light browsing, ...
(Though games these days scale better than they used to, but only up to a to a point.)
I find that most tools I write for my own use can be made to scale with cores, or run so fast that the overhead of starting threads is longer than the program runtime. But I write that in Rust which makes parallelism easy. If I wrote that code in C++ I would probably not bother with trying to parallelize.
But those tools aren't really compute bound anyway - you're not buying a workstation to do them, you're getting a consumer laptop or a tablet.
And that consumer device should have ECC! That's the whole discussion here.
It's confusing because a few comments up is "for the vast majority of people single core performance is all they care about, it's also cheaper" which is unrelated to ECC.
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Why ? If your device is a thin client for web services/gaming the risk of bitflips/bad ram is a minor annoyance.
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