Real World Tech Ad Injection:widget_3 Leader_FM_Passback_728x90 Login Cloud Mobile Graphics Chips Software CPUs GPUs Semiconductors Strategy Forums By: Linus Torvalds (torvalds.delete@this.linux-foundation.org), December 8, 2014 1:34 pm Room: Moderated Discussions Jouni Osmala (josmala.delete@this.cc.hut.fi) on December 8, 2014 1:10 pm wrote: > > I'm assuming that 90+% of programs already run fast enough and they don't matter for this. > Its all about asking question in what use current computers are too slow , and can you parallerize > that or are those cases already parallel. And I'm assuming you can parallerize atleast 10% > of those times where user waits CPU for long enough to actually notice it. What's the advantage? You won't get scaling for much longer, and current trends are actually for lower power anyway. So what's the upside of pushing the whole parallelism snake-oil...