I think I may be getting too caught up the the number of cores. My real concern is that I am not convinced that even if it is possible to just keep adding more cores that it is going to magically make for faster computing. I don't know regardless of whether it is done explicitly by programming or automagically by the compiler or hardware that every kind of program can be optimised to ever more cores. Today we are already starting to see diminishing returns on adding more cores. This may be due to bad software optimisation but the limits for optimising everything for very large scale parallel execution is unknown. Only certain types of applications seem able to practically be scaled this way indefinitely. Many of these are server applications rather than something on a client computer.
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