• manek101@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    It is kinda more efficient tho.
    Power consumption per clock doesn’t scale linearly.
    Splitting a task into two parts and running it on two cores at 2 GHz will consume less power and generate less heat than running it on a single core at 4 GHz.
    Its significantly harder to do that programming wise, but performance wise it has its benefits.
    It also frees up the main high performance core to focus on more important tasks.

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      11 months ago

      That’s assuming you can split it efficiently without any overhead. It’s not just a problem to be “solved” that devs don’t bother with, a lot of tasks scale poorly across threads even if you successfully multi thread them