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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 16, 2020, 4:03:38 PM
In Reply To @HelgeKlein
@HelgeKlein @dhh it's because the CPU is much, *much* faster. They spackle over this with "but m0ar corrreeess" but that doesn't make up for less than half the single-threaded speed (and most tasks for average people are in fact single threaded, we're not all encoding videos or compiling code.)