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2588 sats \ 12 comments \ @Zepasta 15 Nov 2023 tech

14 sats \ 0 replies \ @JesseJames 15 Nov 2023

Not sure what he is smoking.... even an old workstation like this can see it all.... it is a click -bait IMO

4 sats \ 5 replies \ @pillar 15 Nov 2023

Can someone confirm if this has been truly the case and popular distributions such as Debian or Ubuntu have been shipping with this? I find it hard to believe, but reality is sometimes funny, and I don't have the knowledge to verify this.

792 sats \ 1 reply \ @tomlaies 15 Nov 2023

The headline is clickbait /fakenews

The sheduler calculates the estimated speedup with max 8 cores. It's not the processing itself that is locked to 8 cores max.

If you think about it, it can't even be true. Servers are running linux on 22 core intel xeons for yeeears now and AMD Threadripper with 64 cores isn't new either. Not to speak of clusters that have thousands of CPUs hooked up to each other.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 15 Nov 2023

Yep was thinking the same thing.

4 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 15 Nov 2023

Interestingly, there is no story about this on HN yet afaict

427 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scroogey 15 Nov 2023

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38260935

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 15 Nov 2023

thanks!

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @faithandcredit 15 Nov 2023

now im curious do additional cores matter or is it more a marketing gimmick?

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @nullama 15 Nov 2023

Better performance in general as you can benefit from parallelization.

Of course it will depend on the applications you run, the more multi-threaded, the better for more cores.

And also it will depend on the number of applications you run that can be scheduled to different cores. The more, the better.

For a simple analogy:

Imagine an 8 lane highway vs a say, 32 lane highway. Performance will depend on the number of cars that go there and their behavior.