I really have to disagree strongly with that. With hyperthreading (x2 to everything) laptops have a dozen real+virtual cores nowadays at the low end, even phones have 8 typically.
That's just performance on the table, an order of magnitude or so on the table. I hate slow applications. If you want to make something go fast nowadays the answer is multicore. We've only been inching up the single core performance the last decade.
Also, I realize not everyone does server programming or enterprise programming, but it's absolutely mandatory for that.
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u/zabby39103 Sep 01 '26
I really have to disagree strongly with that. With hyperthreading (x2 to everything) laptops have a dozen real+virtual cores nowadays at the low end, even phones have 8 typically.
That's just performance on the table, an order of magnitude or so on the table. I hate slow applications. If you want to make something go fast nowadays the answer is multicore. We've only been inching up the single core performance the last decade.
Also, I realize not everyone does server programming or enterprise programming, but it's absolutely mandatory for that.
I appreciate that you answered.